You are Peter.....

I have learned the significance of Jesus's act of renaming Peter and giving him the keys to the kingdom by reading and listening to Steve Ray. I found this post from Steve's blog that not only shows what the text looked like written in Aramaic, but has a video of it spoken in Aramic also. It gives me goose bumps to listen to it and picture Jesus with Peter in Casarea Phillipi. What a huge impact one act had on Christianity and Universal (Catholic) church. Check out Steve's blog for the picture of the written verse... http://blog.catholic-convert.com/?p=1929




“You are Peter” in Jesus’ language of Aramaic March 4, 2008 at 6:18 am · Filed under Artifacts & Biblical History, Israel and Middle East, Jesus/Godhead, Papacy & Catholic Hierarchy

So, what did it sound like at Caesarea Philippi when Jesus renamed Simon and made him the foundation of the Church: "And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it" (Matt 16:18)?

You know of course, that Jesus did not speak English If most of us heard Him speak those words today we would have no clue what He was saying. Jesus spoke Aramaic and that language is still alive in very small communities in the Middle East.

What you see written to the right is Syriac Aramaic as written by my friend Efrem Nissan in Bethlehem. He is a Syrian Orthodox Christian.

Now, not only can you see the script — which is close to what would have been written in the time of Jesus – but you can listen to it as well. I took this short video clip of Efrem reading the words you see written here. Listen for the word "kepha" which is the word "rock" in Aramaic. (YouTube has been slow and a problem lately. If it doesn't work, visit back.)