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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO
ST JOHN
CHAPTER 1
  42 And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called aCephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.

Footnotes
42a
GR Stone, Pebble.
JST John 1: 42 . . . Cephas, which is, by interpretation, a seer, or a stone. And they were fishermen. And they straightway left all, and followed Jesus.
Matt. 16: 18.
  18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this arock I will build my bchurch; and the gates of chell shall not dprevail against it.
Luke 6: 14.
  14 Simon, (whom he also named aPeter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,
Gal. 2: 9.
  9 And when James, aCephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the bgrace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of cfellowship; that we should go unto the dheathen, and they unto the circumcision.