¹⁷ Jesus responded, ‘Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah,^[a](A) because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father in heaven.^(B)

¹⁴ Simon, whom he also named Peter, and Andrew his brother; James and John; Philip and Bartholomew;

³² Therefore send someone to Joppa and invite Simon here, who is also named Peter. He is lodging in Simon the tanner’s house by the sea.”^[a]

¹⁴ Simeon^[a] has reported how God first intervened to take from the Gentiles a people for his name.^(A)