[RaceBannon]

If sentence diagramming doesnt work just because of a translation, then the translation is in error

subjects and predictes and verbs and nouns are all arranged after translations, and the verse can then be diagrammed

and that means Peter is not the Rock, what Peter spoke told us what the ROCK is, not Peter.

[AnAmericanMother]

Cephas = rock. Aramaic doesn't have gender. It's right there in John's Gospel, you can't shut your eyes to it. (Well, I guess you can, but you're ignoring that Scripture you claim has primacy over everything else.)

The Greek has gender, so petra simply becomes Petros as more appropriate for a male.

When you can actually read the original, get back with us. You're arguing on shifting sand with a paucity of real world linguistic experience. C.S. Lewis said something about people who study the Bible under a microscope but neglect everything else (like Greek, Aramaic, and basic grammar).