Peter, "Son of John" or "Son of Jonah"

[NotWorthy]

***Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah (son of Jonah)…

Simon, son of John, do you love me…***…

I had always assumed that John was the Greek rendition of Jonah, but now I’m hearing it’s not.

Is this correct or not?

If they are not the same, why is Peter referenced two different ways?

 

[Mannyfit75]

***Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah (son of Jonah)…

Simon, son of John, do you love me…***…

I had always assumed that John was the Greek rendition of Jonah, but now I’m hearing it’s not.

Is this correct or not?

If they are not the same, why is Peter referenced two different ways?

John and Jonah are same name. Much like Jesus and Joshua. I think. You could be right…

 

[NotWorthy]

John and Jonah are same name. Much like Jesus and Joshua. I think. You could be right…

Uhhhhhh, thank you?

 

[DaveBj]

NotWorthy:

In the Matthew 16:17 passage, the first one that you refer to, Matthew’s Greek translater took Peter’s “legal” name and transliterated it directly from the Aramaic original–Simon (Shimon in Hebrew and probably in Aramaic as well) bar-Yona, "Shimon, son of Yonah."

In the verses from John 21, the writer said simply "Simon Ioannou, “Simon of John,” leaving out both the Aramaic “bar” and the Greek word for “son.” This was a short-cut way of saying the same thing–“Simon, son of John.”

Yonah and Yochanan (Hebrew) and Ioannes (Greek; the “Ioannou” above is the genitive form of this name) are all variations of the same name. There may be more forms that I have missed.

DaveBj