Matthew 14:28
And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.
KJV
ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ Πέτρος εἶπεν· κύριε, εἰ σὺ εἶ, κέλευσόν με ἐλθεῖν πρὸς σὲ ἐπὶ τὰ ὕδατα·
Greek NT
Respondens autem Petrus, dixit : Domine, si tu es, jube me ad te venire super aquas.
Vulgate
And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee upon the waters.
ASV
And Peter making answer, said: Lord, if it be thou, bid me come to thee upon the waters.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Πέτρος
petros
noun · 154×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
κελεύω
keleuo
verb · 26×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
πρός
pros
preposition · 697×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
ἀποκρίνομαι
apokrinomai
verb · 233×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐπί
epi
preposition · 888×
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
verb · 627×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὕδωρ
udor
noun · 76×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: αὐτῷ ὁ Πέτρος εἶπεν | Treg/NIV/RP: αὐτῷ ὁ Πέτρος εἶπεν | WH: ὁ Πέτρος εἶπεν αὐτῷ
- αὐτῷ ὁ Πέτρος εἶπεν — SBLGNT
- αὐτῷ ὁ Πέτρος εἶπεν — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
- ὁ Πέτρος εἶπεν αὐτῷ — Westcott-Hort
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minor
SBLGNT: ἐλθεῖν πρὸς σὲ | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐλθεῖν πρὸς σὲ | RP: πρός σε ἐλθεῖν
- ἐλθεῖν πρὸς σὲ — SBLGNT
- ἐλθεῖν πρὸς σὲ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- πρός σε ἐλθεῖν — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. What then says Peter, everywhere ardent, and ever starting forward before the rest? Lord, if it be Thou, says he, bid me come unto You on the water. Matthew 14:28 He said not, Pray and entreat, but, bid. Do you see how great his ardor, how great his faith? Yet surely he is hereby often in danger, by seeking things beyond his measure. For so here too he required an exceedingl…
1. Christ provides for the good of his disciples not only when He is present in the body, but also when far away; for having abundance of means and of skill, He effects one and the same end by contrary actions. Observe, for instance, what He has done here. He leaves His disciples, and goes up into a mountain; and they, when even had come, went down unto the sea. They waited for…
60. And this is so, for once again he was sitting on the mountain, and looking up saw in the air some one being borne upwards, and there was much joy among those who met him. Then wondering and deeming a company of that kind to be blessed, he prayed to learn what this might be. And immediately a voice came to him: 'This is the soul of Amun, the monk at Nitria.' Now Amun had per…
Cross-references
- John 6:68 — Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
- John 13:36 — Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.
- John 21:7 — Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher’s coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself
- Mark 6:51 — And he went up unto them into the ship; and the wind ceased: and they were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure, and wondered.
- Matt 19:27 — Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?
- Matt 26:33 — Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.
- Rom 12:3 — For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man t