Artistic companion scene for Simon Peter, not a historical likeness

The fisherman who followed

Simon Peter

← Meet the people

Called from a life of fishing, Peter asks, speaks, stumbles, denies, and encounters a renewed invitation. His story makes room for human failure.

Let the text introduce them.

Begin with Luke 5; Luke 22; John 21. Notice what the passage tells you, what it leaves unsaid, and what you may have brought to it from other retellings.

Read their story ↗Stay with Peter by the sea ↗

Make room for an encounter.

What question would you bring to this person’s story? Read slowly enough to notice a detail you have passed over before.

Explore the people beside him ↗
Sources: Luke 5; Luke 22; John 21. Images are imagined reconstructions. Where the biblical text gives few details, we preserve that uncertainty.