No, he said "this rock", referring to the confession. Go get your Bible (if you have one) and follow along:
Matthew 16:15 through 18 reads as follows. He said to them, But who do you say that I am? Simon Peter replied, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. 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. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
The Greek is su ei Petros, kai epi tautē tē petra oikodomēsō mou tēn ekklēsian. Petros is masculine. Petra and the demonstrative tautē are feminine, so this rock cannot take Peter as its antecedent. It takes the confession the Father has just revealed.
The rest of Scripture fixes that reading. Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 3:11 that no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. Ephesians 2:20 says the household of God is built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.
Peter, in 1 Peter 2:4 through 8, calls Christ the living stone rejected by men but chosen by God, and the cornerstone, and applies to Him the stone of stumbling. Acts 4:11 through 12 has Peter himself declare that Jesus is the stone rejected by the builders which has become the cornerstone, and that there is salvation in no other. The same apostle who received the name therefore points away from himself to Christ as the rock.
The church stands on the confessed Son, not on the confessor.
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