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>The canonical version of the Gospel of Matthew has several connections to the city of Antioch and to the apostle Peter, who the Epistle to the Galatians associates, using Peter's alias Cephas, with Antioch. One example is Matthew 17:24-27, Peter asks Jesus about the Temple tax and Jesus tells Peter that he will find a fish with a stater coin worth four drachma in its mouth to pay the tax for both of them, and stater coin was only worth four drachma in Antioch. Another example is that the epistles attributed to Ignatius of Antioch also appear to reflect the tradition from Matthew. In Mark 8:27-38, Peter is the first to identify Jesus as the Christ but then Jesus tells his disciples to tell no one about this, but characteristically of Mark's habit of treating the top three disciples as confused flatterers, Jesus tells his disciples that he is going to die and Peter rebukes him, causing Jesus to say to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are thinking not as God thinks, but as human beings do.” In contrast to that, Matthew 16:13-20, Jesus tells Peter that it was God and not “flesh and blood” that revealed this to him, then Jesus announces that that he will build his church on the cornerstone of Peter, whose name means rock. The statement that was originally meant to legitimize the Antioch church but was later adapted by the Catholic Church to associate Peter's church with Rome. Acts 11:26 concurs that the church was first called Christian in Antioch but insinuates it had more to do with Barnabas and Saul/Paul. The Epistle to the Galatians and the earlier Toledot story The Jewish Life of Jesus also portrays Cephas/Peter as trying to walk a line between James' Jewish apocalyptic sect centered in Jerusalem and Paul's Hellenized mystery religion from Alexandria and Anatolia
