Our Lord declared Peter to be blessed, as the teaching of God made him differ from his unbelieving countrymen. Christ added that he had named him Peter, in allusion to his stability or firmness in professing the truth. The word translated to rock, is not the same word as Peter, but is of a similar meaning.
Nothing can be more wrong than to suppose that Christ meant the person of Peter was THE rock. Without a doubt Christ himself is the Rock, as Peter answered to Jesus. Jesus is the tried foundation of the church; and woe to him that attempts to say any other!
Gee, just a few verses later Jesus says this to the new pope...
Mathew 16; verse 23
Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”
How do know for sure that Mary and the saints intercede for you, got any scriptural proof ?
That is the common Protestant mistranslation.
How do know for sure that Mary and the saints intercede for you, got any scriptural proof ?
If I am to accept your insistence on Scriptural proof, I will first need proof of sola Scriptura.
And there is none.