Peter_In_Mark_And_Matthew

Peter In Mark And Matthew Although seen as a very important figure in the Gospels, Peter can be shown to be one of the strongest of disciples at times and then can be as easily exposed as one of the weakest on occasions. While both books of Mark and Matthew portray Peter as one of the most important followers of Jesus, Mark seems to emphasize Jesus' spiritual career unlike the broad, more in-depth pursuit of Jesus' life that Matthew embellishes on. As both Jesus' student and friend, Peter is the one disciple most commonly referred to in the stories. Yet the two passages seem to draw different pictures of Jesus' distinguished disciple. In Matthew, Peter seems to play a larger role in Jesus' teachings and seems more significant to Jesus throughout the book. In Mark, he is still important, but to a lesser extent in the eyes of the author. Mark leaves Peter out of a few of the stories altogether and only touches on Peter's importance to Jesus towards the very end. Each difference in the stories conn! ected to Peter gives a slightly altered account of his personality and role. jesus, peter, mark, matthew, jesus', story, out, one, important, both, yet, two, seems, peter's, passages, life, faith, disciples, while, water, mt, friend, about, teacher, stories, speech, man, leave, first, eyes, trying, through, tax, simply, shown