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The Restoration of Peter (also known as the Re-commissioning of Peter) [1] is an incident described in John 21 of the New Testament in which Jesus appeared to his disciples after his resurrection and spoke to Peter in particular. Jesus restored Peter to fellowship after Peter had previously denied him and told Peter to feed Jesus' sheep.
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The scene, part of the series of the Stories of Jesus on the chapel's northern wall, is a reference to Matthew 16 [2] in which Jesus says he will give "the keys of the kingdom of heaven" to Saint Peter. [3] These keys represent the power to forgive and to share the word of God thereby giving them the power to allow others into heaven.
Standing on a staircase, Jesus appears in the center of the painting, leaning towards Peter, who kneels to receive the keys. On the ground, lie the iconographic symbols of an open book and a sword, while in the sky, some angels, seraphs and cherubs, appear among the clouds to witness and to celebrate the event.
Brooklyn Museum – The Ear of Malchus (L'oreille de Malchus) – James Tissot A depiction of Peter striking Malchus (c. 1520, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon) Malchus (/ ˈ m æ l k ə s /; Koinē Greek: Μάλχος, romanized: Málkhos, pronounced [ˈmal.kʰos]) was the servant of the Jewish High Priest Caiaphas who participated in the arrest of Jesus as written in the four gospels.
The Restoration of Peter (John 21:3–19) emphasises the ecclesiastical leadership of Peter, which may indicate that this addition was intended to take a side in 'a later discussion on competing claims of apostolic authorities', especially in John 21:15–17, in which Jesus instructs Peter to 'Tend my sheep!', meaning to lead the flock (=lay ...
The painting was probably produced between 1612 and 1614 to fulfil a commission by the Kapellekerk in Brussels for a painting to decorate the tomb of Peter Bruegel the Elder, showing his name saint (i.e. Peter).
The Denial of Peter is a 1660 painting by Rembrandt, now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.It depicts the denial of Peter, an event in the Passion of Jesus.. After the Last Supper, Jesus has been arrested, and taken to the house of the high priest Caiaphas for trial by the Sanhedrin.