at least, he had a good eyewitness and original preacher source (just as he claims in Lk 1:1–4): the man called Cephas. While all roads may not lead to Rome, all these rabbit trails and echoes of other Christian sources in 1 Peter eventually lead back to the historical figure of Peter himself. He is the best candidate, perhaps with the help of Silvanus, for the authorship of 1 Peter, just as he is the one who spoke of these things on many occasions to Jews in Jerusalem and elsewhere during the first
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