LOL I know you want it to be so but alas you would be in error. You want it so badly that you didn’t read the rest of the post, or dismissed it out of hand.
Jesus replied and said that it was not flesh and blood that had revealed that to Peter but that it was “my Father which is in heaven”. Then after acknowledging who Peter was as Peter had acknowledged that Jesus was the Son of the living God, Jesus says that it’s on this Rock (The living God) that He would build His church. There is sufficient evidence in God’s own words who the Rock is as I have shown in my previous post.
Jesus gave the keys to Peter.
Peter was the first pope.
His peers recognized his special role.
This same group of fallible men actually chose a successor apostle to replace Judas, and that apostle was a real apostle.
The apostles had the authority to name new apostles, and they did so, and this is in the bible, and it continues to this day.
I do not need to desperately believe it. On the contrary, it is the protestant who must desperately reject it.
Jesus does not acknowledge WHO Peter is, rather He acknowledges WHAT Peter is and that is the small rock, with the authority of the big Rock who is God.
There is no question that the Rock is God. Peter is the rock upon which God built His church.