About this episode

Father Spitzer discusses the significance of names in Jewish culture and the divine authority of Jesus in renaming Peter.

Father Spitzer explains how names were sacred and untouchable in Jewish culture, and why only one who possessed divine authority, as Jesus did in renaming Peter, could change them.

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