17And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
Jesus calls Peter by his first name Simon, adding Bar-Jonah, that is, son of Jonah. In Egyptian textual variants, Matthew 16:17 reads Son of John, so it is quite possible that in the Greek, Iōnās (Jonah) served as shorthand for Iōannēs (John).
17 And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.