John 1:42

Thou art Simon... thou shalt be called Cephas.

There was no hesitation on the part of Peter to go at once to see him of whom Andrew spoke. He, also, as one of John's disciples, was waiting for the King. To his name Simon, Christ added another by which afterwards he was known. Cephas is Hebrew, and means. stone; Peter means the same in Greek; not rock, as some have urged. The word for that in the Greek is petra, while the word anglicised as Peter is petros. In Matthew 16:18, Christ says, in response to Peter's confession, "Thou art Petros (a stone), and upon this petra (a solid rock). will build my church." The Rock was the "Stone cut out without hands." Peter was. fragment of rock built upon the Stone by the great confession. Christ is the Rock; Peter was. rockman.