Jesus walking on the sea, Matt 14: 22-33 in context of Peter's pericopes in the Matthew's Gospel.

One of the Matthew's Gospel pericopes is the main subject of this Bachelor thesis entitled "Jesus walking on the water". The thesis focuses in particular in the personality of the apostle Peter and aims to depict his life by Jesus' side. The first chapter comprises of basic characteristics of the Matthew's Gospel including the history of the times of its origin. The chapter contains information about the overal structure of the Gospels, sources used by Matthew, the author himself and about the readership this Gospel was addressed to. Second chapter consists of two parts. The first of them follows up apostle's Peter general characterisics, as his origin, his profession and social classification, place where he was born and lived and his original name as well as the name he gained. Selected Peter's pericopes (Mt 4,18-20; 16,13-20; 17,24-27; 18,21-22) are analyzed in the second part of the second chapter taking into account Peter's mission and his significance in them. The key part of this thesis deals with the main pericope's "Jesus walking on the sea" (14,2-33) analysis and apostle's Peter involvement in it, his importance and his unique role in the Christian history and early Church. The third chapter of the thesis compares "Jesus walking on the sea" pericope as it is described in Matthew's Gospel..