PeterFT

Essay on Peter:

Peter, as we all know, was the first pope of the church. There are many qualities to describe peter but two of them was that he was very truthful and obedient. Peter is truthful because he is a man of his word. In the bible passage Matthew 17:24-27, Peter shows that he very truthful and obedient.

One good reason why Jesus chose Peter as the first pope was because the definition of truthful is someone who is telling the truth. Then when you look up what true means that it is not false. Peter was a truthful man and I think that is one of the reasons why Jesus chose Peter as the first pope. Another reason why he is truthful is because the bible passage, that I put in the introduction, talks about how Jesus needed to pay his taxes and the man asked Peter "Is this man going to pay his taxes?" and Peter says, "Yes." Then Peter told Jesus and Jesus said, "Okay, cast your net out and when you catch a fish open its mouth and there will be a coin. Then I want you to bring it to the man." When Peter does this he is truthful to the man who asked if Jesus would pay and he said yes and then told Jesus and Jesus paid and so he is a man of his word.

The other reason why Peter is a good pope is because he was obedient. Peter was obedient because in the definition of obey is to follow the commands or instructions and when the man said to tell Jesus to pay his taxes, Peter goes and tells him. Then when Jesus said that he would pay, Jesus says to go cast your net and catch a fish and when you open its mouth, there will be a coin in it and Peter would give it to the tax collector. So Peter does what the tax collector tells him to do and does what his master tells him to do.

Now, two lessons future popes can learn from Peter is to be truthful and obedient because when you are truthful, people trust you a lot more in there hands. When someone has trust in you they can tell you what they need to get off there chest and hope that you can understand without getting mad. Also they need to be obedient so that you do what is asked if it is appropriate and not something ridiculous.

There are two well explained lessons that Peter showed that could help future popes if they want to be good popes. They need to be truthful and obedient. If a pope follows what Peter did, I think the pope will not be a bad pope and a lot of people would like him.