Peter

Following is a Armenian Orthodox icon of Peter (found in the Ghazanchetsots Cathedral in Shusha, Azerbaijan).

Orthodox Icons are not drawings or creations of imagination. They are in fact writings of things not of this world. Icons can represent our Lord Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the Saints. They can also represent the Holy Trinity, Angels, the Heavenly hosts, and even events. Orthodox icons, unlike Western pictures, change the perspective and form of the image so that it is not naturalistic. This is done so that we can look beyond appearances of the world, and instead look to the spiritual truth of the holy person or event. (Source )

Following is a hand colored stencil print on momigami of Peter by Sadao Watanabe (1970):

Image taken with permission from the SadaoHanga Catalogue where you can find many more images and information about Sadao Watanabe. For other images of Sadao Watanabe art works in TIPs, see here.

In Finnish Sign Language it is translated with the sign signifying “key” (referring to Matthew 16:19). (Source: Tarja Sandholm)


“Peter” or “Cephas” in Finnish Sign Language (source )

In Swiss-German Sign Language it is translated with the sign for “rock,” referring to the meaning of the Greek word for “Peter.”


“Peter” in Swiss-German Sign Language, source: DSGS-Lexikon biblischer Begriffe , © CGG Schweiz

For more information on translations of proper names with sign language see Sign Language Bible Translations Have Something to Say to Hearing Christians .

See also Peter – rock.

Learn more on Bible Odyssey: Peter .

Peter denies Jesus (image)

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Following is an painting by Wang Suda 王肅達 (1910-1963):

Copyright by the Catholic University Peking, China

Text under painting translated from Literary Chinese into English:
The Second Commandment
Peter swears he doesn’t know the Lord

Image taken from Chinese Christian Posters . For more information on the “Ars Sacra Pekinensis” school of art, see this article , for other artworks of that school in TIPs, see here.

Mark 14:66 - 72 in Mexican Sign Language

Following is the translation of Mark 14:66-72 into Mexican Sign Language with back-translations into Spanish and English underneath:


© La Biblia en LSM / La Palabra de Dios

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Afuera en la plaza Pedro se estaba calientando las manos al fuego, y una mujer, sierva del sumo sacerdote caminó (hacia él) y lo vio y dijo: “Jesús es del pueblo de Nazaret, y tú siempre ibas de lugar a lugar con él.”

Pedro (dijo): “No lo conozco”, y caminó hacia la puerta y oyó el galló gritando.

Otra vez la sierva lo vio y dijo: “Este hombre estaba junto con Jesús, pero Pedro lo negó.”

Después las personas dijeron: “Sentimos seguros que este hombre estaba con Jesús, lo conocemos, él también es de Galilea.”

Pedro (dijo): “Este hombre Jesús, no lo conozco, de verás, en serio, si miento Dios me castigue.”

En este instante el gallo gritó por segunda vez, y Pedro lo oyó y se acordó de que Jesús recientemente lo había dicho: “Tú me negarás tres veces y después el gallo gritará por segunda vez.”

Pedro tuvo un cambio de corazón y lloró y lloró.


Outside in the square Peter was warming his hands by the fire and a woman, servant of the high priest, walked up (to him) and saw him and said: “Jesus is from the village of Nazareth and you were always traveling around with him.”

Peter (said): “I don’t know him” and he walked to the door and heard the rooster crow.

Again the servant woman saw him and said: “This man was with Jesus, but Peter denied it.”

Afterwards the people said: “We feel sure that this man was with Jesus, we know him, he is also from Galilee.”

Peter (said): “This man Jesus, I don’t know him, really, seriously, if I lie God may punish me.”

At that moment the rooster crowed for the second time, and Peter heard it and remembered what Jesus had told him just before: “You will deny me three times and then the rooster will crow for the second time.”

Peter had a change of heart and cried and cried.

Source: La Biblia en LSM / La Palabra de Dios

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Mark 14:66-72 in Russian Sign Language

Following is the translation of Mark 14:66-72 into Russian Sign Language with a back-translation underneath:


Source: Russian Bible Society / Российское Библейское Общество

In the house of the high priest, where the judges, chief priests and others had gathered to judge Jesus, Peter was standing in the courtyard, warming himself by the fire. A woman, the high priest’s servant, passed by. As she passed by, she looked at Peter, looked closely and said:

— Yes, that’s right, you were with Jesus of Nazareth. It’s you.

Peter said, “No, no. I do not know him.” And he went away to another place. At that moment the rooster crowed for the first time. Peter went away to the side, but the same servant girl, passing by, saw him and began to say to everyone, “Look, this is he, this man was with Jesus.” Peter said, “No, no!!!” And he went away again to another place. And the people who had gathered there, seeing Peter, said, “Yes, indeed, it was you who was with Jesus, for you speak like a man from Galilee.”

Peter said, “No, it’s not me. I’m honest to God, I don’t know who Jesus is, no.” And at that moment the rooster crowed a second time. Peter, hearing the rooster, remembered Jesus telling him, “By the time the rooster crows twice, you will have already denied me three times!” Peter remembered these words and began to worry and cry very much.

Original Russian back-translation (click or tap here):

В доме первосвященника, где собрались судьи, первосвященники и другие люди, чтобы судить Иисуса, там во дворе Петр стоял, грелся у костра. Там проходила женщина, служанка первосвященника. Когда она проходила мимо, она посмотрела на Петра, присмотрелась и сказала:

– Да, точно, ты был с Иисусом из Назарета. Это ты.

Петр сказал: «Нет, нет. Я не знаю его». И отошел в другое место. В это время петух прокричал первый раз. Петр отошел в сторону, но эта же служанка, проходя мимо, увидела его и стала всем говорить: «Вот, это он, этот человек был вместе с Иисусом». Петр сказал: «Нет же, нет!!!» И он опять отошел в другое место. И люди, которые там собрались, увидев Петра, сказали: «Да, точно, это ты был вместе с Иисусом, потому что ты говоришь, как человек из Галилеи».

Петр сказал: «Нет, это не я. Я честен перед Богом, я не знаю, кто такой Иисус, нет». И в это время прокричал петух второй раз. Петр, услышав петуха, вспомнил, как Иисус сказал ему: «К тому времени, когда петух дважды прокричит, ты уже трижды от меня отречешься!» Петр вспомнил эти слова и начал очень сильно переживать и плакать.

Back-translation by Luka Manevich

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complete verse (Mark 14:70)

Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:70:

  • Uma: “But Petrus firmly denied it again. Not long from there, a person / people standing there said to him again: ‘You (sing.) are too his companion! For you (sing.) too are a Galilea person.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “But Petros argued/denied again. Not long after, the people standing there said to Petros, ‘You cannot argue/deny that you are not their companion because you are a man from Jalil also.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But when Peter heard that, he denied it again. And after a while the people who were there said to Peter, they said, ‘It’s really true that you are his companions. It’s evident for you are from Galilee also.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “But again Pedro denied it. A little later, those standing there also said, ‘It’s emphatically true that you (sing.) are one of them, because you (sing.) also are from-Galilea.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Pedro again really denied it once more.Before long, Pedro was next spoken to by those standing there, ‘You were indeed with them, for you are a taga Galilea.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

3rd person pronoun with high register (Japanese)

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Like a number of other East Asian languages, Japanese uses a complex system of honorifics, i.e. a system where a number of different levels of politeness are expressed in language via words, word forms or grammatical constructs. These can range from addressing someone or referring to someone with contempt (very informal) to expressing the highest level of reference (as used in addressing or referring to God) or any number of levels in-between. One way Japanese shows different degree of politeness is through the choice of a third person singular and plural pronoun (“he,” “she,” “it” and their various forms) as shown here in the widely-used Japanese Shinkaiyaku (新改訳) Bible of 2017. While it’s not uncommon to avoid pronouns altogether in Japanese, there are is a range of third person pronouns that can be used.

In these verses a number of them are used that pay particularly much respect to the referred person (or, in fact, God, as in Exodus 15:2), including kono kata (この方), sono kata (その方), and ano kata (あの方), meaning “this person,” “that person,” and “that person over there.” (Source: S. E. Doi, see also S. E. Doi in Journal of Translation, 18/2022, p. 37ff. )

See also third person pronoun with exalted register.

Translation commentary on Mark 14:70

Text:

At the end of the verse kai hē lalia sou homoiazei ‘for your speech is like (the speech of Galileans)’ is added by Textus Receptus and included in brackets by Soden and Taylor; it is omitted, however, by the majority of modern editions of the Greek text.

Exegesis:

ērneito (cf. v. 68) ‘he was denying’: the imperfect tense here, in contrast to the aorist tense in v. 68, may portray the denial as being repeated; cf. The Modern Speech New Testament, ‘he repeatedly denied it.’ Translator’s New Testament (again cf. v. 68), ‘But he disowned Him again.’

meta mikron (cf. 14.35) ‘after a little (while).’

kai gar Galilaios ei ‘for you also are a Galilean’: the kai ‘also’ should not be omitted (as done by Revised Standard Version).

Galilaios (only here in Mark) ‘a Galilean,’ ‘a man from Galilee.’

Translation:

Again he denied it may be rendered as ‘again he said it was not so’ or ‘again he declared that it was not true.’

One of them is rendered as ‘one with them’ in some languages, since association is described as being ‘with’ a group rather than ‘of’ it.

Galilean is generally rendered as ‘a man from Galilee’ or ‘Galilee is your land.’

Quoted with permission from Bratcher, Robert G. and Nida, Eugene A. A Handbook on the Gospel of Mark. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1961. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .