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Good point Pav. Of course Christ was most likely speaking Aramaic when he renamed Simon, so Petros would have been a translation on the part of Greek-speaking disciples, or else the gospel-writers.

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I don't think we will ever really know why Simon got his nickname (maybe he collected stones?), but the explanation given in Matthew 16:18 seems pretty clear to me. Even if, as Pavlos and Anneza said, it was just a pun.