Saint Peter

===Non-canonical sayings of Peter===
[[File:Bouts third-appearance.jpg|thumb|''[[Miraculous catch of fish]]'', by [[Aelbrecht Bouts]]]]
Two sayings are attributed to Peter in the [[Gnostic]] [[Gospel of Thomas]]. In the first, Peter compares Jesus to a "just messenger".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.misericordia.edu/users/davies/thomas/Trans.htm |title=Gospel of Thomas 13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070813204310/http://www.misericordia.edu/users/davies/thomas/Trans.htm |archive-date=13 August 2007 }}</ref> In the second, Peter asks Jesus to "make Mary leave us, for females don't deserve life."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.misericordia.edu/users/davies/thomas/Trans.htm |title=Gospel of Thomas 114 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070813204310/http://www.misericordia.edu/users/davies/thomas/Trans.htm |archive-date=13 August 2007 }}</ref> In the [[Apocalypse of Peter]], Peter holds a dialogue with Jesus about the [[parable of the fig tree]] and the fate of [[sinners]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/apocalypsepeter-mrjames.html|title=The Apocalypse of Peter (translation by M. R. James)|website=www.earlychristianwritings.com}}</ref> In the [[Gospel of Mary]], whose text is largely fragmented, Peter appears to be jealous of "Mary" (probably [[Mary Magdalene]]). He says to the other disciples, "Did He really speak privately with a woman and not openly to us? Are we to turn about and all listen to her? Did He prefer her to us?"<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://www.gnosis.org/library/marygosp.htm|title=The Gospel According to Mary Magdalene|website=www.gnosis.org}}</ref> In reply to this, Levi says, "Peter, you have always been hot tempered."<ref name="auto"/> Other noncanonical texts that attribute sayings to Peter include the [[Secret Book of James]] and the [[Acts of Peter]].

In the [[Fayyum Fragment]], which dates to the end of the 3rd century, Jesus predicts that Peter will deny him three times before a [[Rooster|cock]] crows on the following morning. The account is similar to that of the canonical gospels, especially the [[Gospel of Mark]]. It is unclear whether the fragment is an abridged version of the accounts in the [[synoptic gospels]], or a source text on which they were based, perhaps the apocryphal Gospel of Peter.<ref>''Das Evangelium nach Petrus. Text, Kontexte, Intertexte.'' Edited by Thomas J. Kraus and Tobias Nicklas. (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur. Archiv für die Ausgabe der Griechischen Christlichen Schiftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte (TU), 158.) viii–384 pp. Berlin–New York: [[Walter de Gruyter]], 2007. {{ISBN|978-3-11-019313-8}}.</ref>

The fragmentary [[Gospel of Peter]] contains an account of the death of Jesus differing significantly from the canonical gospels. It contains little information about Peter himself, except that after the discovery of the [[empty tomb]], "I, Simon Peter, and Andrew my brother, took our fishing nets and went to the sea."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cygnus-study.com/pagepet.html |title=Gospel of Peter 14:3 |publisher=Cygnus-study.com |access-date=12 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090917093938/http://www.cygnus-study.com/pagepet.html |archive-date=17 September 2009 }}</ref>