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the apostle

General References to

Mt 4:18; Joh 1:41; Mr 3:16; Mt 16:16; Mr 5:37; 9:2
Mt 17:24; 18:21; 19:27; Lu 22:8,31; Joh 13:6; Mt 26:37,58,69
Lu 24:12,34; Joh 21:3,15; Ac 1:15; 2:14; 3:1; 4:8; 5:3,29
Ac 8:14,20; 9:32,40; 10:9; 11:2; 12:3; 15:7; 1Co 1:12; 9:5
Ga 1:18; 2:11; 1Pe 1:1; 5:1

-- "The Reed Changed to a Rock"

Naturally impulsive
Mt 14:28; 17:4; Joh 21:7

Tenderhearted and affectionate
Mt 26:75; Joh 13:9; 21:15-17

Full of strange contradictions, - at times presumptuous
Mt 16:22; Joh 13:8; 18:10

other times timid and cowardly
Mt 14:30; 26:69-72

Self-sacrificing
Mr 1:18

yet inclined to be self-seeking
Mt 19:27

Gifted with Spiritual insight
Joh 6:68

yet slow to apprehend the deeper truths
Mt 15:15,16

Made two great confession of his faith in Christ
Mt 16:16; Joh 6:69

and also the most cowardly denial
Mr 14:67-71

-- Seven Steps in his Fall

1--Conceit
Mt 26:33

2--Ease
Mt 26:40

3--Rashness
Joh 18:10,11

4--Following afar off
Mt 26:58

5--Evil associations
Joh 18:18

6--Open Denial
Joh 18:25

7--Blasphemy
Mr 14:70,71

-- After Pentecostal Baptism of the Spirit, he became a "rock"
fulfilling the prophecy of Christ
Joh 1:42; Mt 16:18; Ac 1:8

Was courageous and immovable
Ac 4:19,20; 5:28,29,40,40

--SEE Miracles of, MIRACLES

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