Nope...Doesn't make good English, or Greek...I have a feeling Jesus passed all of his Greek classes...Your guys built an entire religion on the perversion of that one verse...
We have a bible full of rocks...We KNOW who the rock is...
And how do you know the gates of Hell are not prevailing against your religion right now...Because your unbiblical, unGodly 'holy father' tells you so???
2Co 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 2Co 11:15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
Of course it doesn't make good English. Jesus spoke Aramaic. Not Greek. Not English. In Aramaic, the language Jesus and Peter spoke, Simon’s new name was Kepha (which means a massive rock). So Christ would have said, “And I say also unto thee, That thou art Kepha, and upon this Kepha I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Mat 6:18
Because of gender in the Greek Language, this was translated into Greek as Petros and into English as Peter.
Peter/Petros/Kepha is the Rock of this verse.