title: Peter in the New Testament
author: Raymond Brown
description: A Collaborative assessment by Protestant and Roman Catholic Scholars. The role of Peter has remained one of the most sensitive and divisive areas of the New Testament inquiry, particularly because of its implications for the position of the papacy in Christendom.
zlib_text: The Apocalypse of Peter 
   
  As the Savior was sitting in the temple in the three hundredth (year) of the covenant 
  and the agreement of the tenth pillar, and being satisfied with the number of the 
  living, incorruptible Majesty, he said to me, "Peter, blessed are those above 
  belonging to the Father, who revealed life to those who are from the life, through 
  me, since I reminded they who are built on what is strong, that they may hear my 
  word, and distinguish words of unrighteousness and transgression of law from 
  righteousness, as being from the height of every word of this Pleroma of truth, 
  having been enlightened in good pleasure by him whom the principalities sought. 
  But they did not find him, nor was he mentioned among any generation of the 
  prophets. He has now appeared among these, in him who appeared, who is the Son 
  of Man, who is exalted above the heavens in a fear of men of like essence. But you 
  yourself, Peter, become perfect in accordance with your name with myself, the