Who Are the Twelve Disciples of Jesus Christ

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[servantboy777]

You who sits at the right hand of our Father are worthy to receive all honor and glory and praise.

Blessed is the Holy Lamb of God, Jesus Christ the righteous!

Veni Sancte Spiritus....Amen, Amen!

[faucetman]

While debating the minutia of this topic might be fun, the title immediately brought to my mind, “For the Sake of the Call” by Steven Curtis Chapman. A song whose lyrics touch my very soul and often bring me to tears.

“.......He said “Come follow me” and they came
With reckless abandon they came

Empty nets lying there at the waters edge
Told a story that few could believe and none could explain
How some crazy fishermen agreed to go where Jesus lead
With no thought for what they would gain..........”

Mathew 4: NIV
Jesus Calls His First Disciples
18 As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. 19 “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” 20 At once they left their nets and followed him.
21 Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee, preparing their nets. Jesus called them, 22 and immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUzn2nBcrrk

[HarleyD]

You're right. I simply was exaggerating the point that Paul wrote the bulk of the New Testament. Book wise it breaks down as following:

Books

14-52%-PAUL (INCLUDES HEBREWS)
2-7%-LUKE
2-7%-PETER
5-19%-JOHN
1-4%-JUDE
1-4%-MATTHEW
1-4%-MARK
1-4%-JAMES

I'm not sure you can measure it based upon pages as I'm sure we would agree it is all important.

[Hostage]

I was taken a little aback at your attitude of ‘balderdash’; didn’t think it was called for.

The part that stuck with me on this writing was:

“God chooses the humble, the lowly, the meek and the weak so that there’ll never be any question about their source of power.”

Source of power indeed.....

I think the Contra-postitive in this case would have been “what would have been the effect of Jesus’ ministry had he been promoted by Caiphas or even Herod or Pilate?”. Suppose that earthly persons of influence, authority and power had anointed him as a Prophet even a Messiah, would his death in history have ever had an effect? He could have been perceived in history by nonbelievers as having power from earthly authority and having fallen afoul of that earthly authority been deemed guilty of inciting violence and thereafter executed.

It is interesting to contemplate how God willed the associations that Jesus had. Had God willed that Caiphas promote Jesus and his ministry, there would likely never been a confrontation of conflict with Caiphas. Still the insurrections and violence of zealots would have caused a Roman crackdown and Jesus being a spiritual leader that people flocked to and promoted by the Sanhedrin would naturally come into focus by the Roman procurator and an execution may still have occurred.

So in contemplating how the script was to be written, we must know why God chose the high ranks of the Sanhedrin to pronounce Jesus as a heretic and blasphemer and to lobby the Roman procurator to execute him.

Perhaps the answer is that a judgement and execution attributed solely to the Romans would have left a history that this was a simple conflict between Rome and Jerusalem rather that a conflict among members of the human family.

[Jonah Vark]

NIV
Luke 6
12 One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. 13 When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles: 14 Simon (whom he named Peter), his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, 15 Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called the Zealot, 16 Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

KING JAMES
Luke 6
12And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. 13And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles; 14Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, 15Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes, 16And Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/

[U-238]

I agree with you.

[U-238]

I am sure their congregation took care of them.The probably lived very spartan lives

[U-238]

This is what Revelation 21:14 says: The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb

The twelve apostles comprise the following:

Peter, Andrew, James the Greater, James the Lesser, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, Thaddeus, Simon, Judas Iscariot,

With Judas Iscariot gone, Matthais became part of the thwelve. Read Acts 1:15-26

[U-238]

Excellent Point

[U-238]

have a Happy and Blessed Easter

U-238

[SquarePants]

So then you’re saying Jesus was mistaken when He chose Paul to be an “apostle?”

Acts 1:15-26 was precisely what I was referring to - who’s right? Jesus/Paul or the other apostles/Mathias? Personally, I disagree with you, and I think that Jesus was correct.