Every one that is perfect shall be as his master (Luke 6:40). “Few biographies are written of ordinary men,” observes Schuyler English, “unless they be autobiographies.”1 The more outstanding or uncommon a person’s life, however, the more compelling his story. Whatever else we might say about the apostle Peter, the record of his life in the Gospels and Book of Acts shows him to be anything but an “ordinary man.” He was, of course, a man among men, displaying all the qualities