... means rock. Thus on that day at Caesarea Philippi about 20 miles north of the Sea of Galilee, Simon Johnson, as he was known to his fishing buddies and his family, got a new name and his new name was Rocky. Rocky was the big one, bigger than lifelike boxers by that name: Marciano or the character Sylvester Stallone played in the movie called Rocky and all its sequels. I can just hear him calling the other disciples with a tough Philadelphia street kid accent, “Hey you’se guys, let’s go get some fish ...
