George Leo Haydock

The evangelist here gives the names of the twelve. First, Simon, to whom he gave the name of Peter, in Greek, Petron , which signifies a rock; thus shewing that upon him his Church should be founded, as on a rock, never to be overturned. (Tirinus) — Polus, in his Synopsis Criticorum on this verse says that some Greek copies have, Proton Simona , First, Simon, which he believes to be the genuine reading: “nec dubito quin hæc sit germana lectio.”