One of the Roman Catholic Church’s chief scriptural supports for the authority of St. Peter as the leading Apostle, who would become the bishop of Rome — whom we would eventually refer to as the first pope — is the verses of Matthew 16:17-19: And Jesus answered him, ‘Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh …
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