The amazing thing that we read in the Gospel accounts is that when Jesus called these men, they left whatever it was that they had previously been doing and followed Him. After a night of prayer on a mountain, Jesus called His followers together and formally chose twelve from them to serve as apostles:. When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles: Simon whom he named Peter , his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called the Zealot, Judas son of James also known as Thaddaeus, the name that is used in Matthew and Mark , and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.
The accounts of the calling of the disciples are also found in Mark —20 , Luke —11 , and John — And as Jesus calls out a new people for Himself, He starts with twelve men who will form the basis of a new Israel. They knew that they had to leave their current jobs and the security that those gave.
But it was only as Jesus neared the end of His earthly life that He explained to them the real cost of discipleship. According to the Bible, it appears that there were at least 82 disciples, although the twelve are mentioned the most often. Learn more about this date in history. Torah Portion unknown or view this week's triennial cycle reading. The conference opened with a prayer by Brigham Young, and Joseph instructed the Twelve on how to organize for conducting business.
The eldest was to preside in the first meeting, the second oldest in the second meeting, and so on until each had presided, then start over again. The Quorum of the Twelve then stood second only to the First Presidency in overseeing Church affairs across the globe.
He could not organize his kingdom with twelve men to open the gospel door to the nations of the earth, and with seventy men under their direction to follow in their tracks, unless he took them from a body of men who had offered their lives, and who had made as great a sacrifice as did Abraham.
Roberts, 2nd ed. Apostles had been mentioned in earlier revelations. On Moses and seventy elders of Israel, see Exodus , 9—11; Numbers —17, 24— Heber C. John; the appropriateness of it is striking. In it is stressed the needed union with the Christ.
So close that it must be as the branch to the vine, if it would have life; love so great that it will not withhold life as a sacrifice to friendship—and greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends; the apostles are declared to be friends to the Christ. Ye have not chosen me but I have chosen you and ordained you that ye may bring forth much fruit. If they have persecuted me they will persecute you. They hated me without a cause.
But when the Comforter is come. How fitting the scripture to the occasion! Backman Jr. Most dictionaries will translate Jesus' name which was apparently more properly translated to Joshua than "Jesus" to be "God is salvation. Yah is short for Yahweh, and shuah is from yeshuah which means "to save, save alive, rescue. How many times did Jesus appear to his disciples after his resurrection? Matthew has two post-Resurrection appearances, the first to Mary Magdalene and "the other Mary" at the tomb, and the second, based on Mark , to all the disciples on a mountain in Galilee, where Jesus claims authority over heaven and Earth and commissions the disciples to preach the gospel to the whole world.
Were there 70 or 72 disciples? The seventy disciples or seventy-two disciples known in the Eastern Christian traditions as the Seventy[-two] Apostles were early emissaries of Jesus mentioned in the Gospel of Luke.
Who were Jesus closest disciples? When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles: Simon whom he named Peter , his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called the Zealot, Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a. Did any of the 12 Apostles write the Bible? These books are called Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John because they were traditionally thought to have been written by Matthew, a disciple who was a tax collector; John, the "Beloved Disciple" mentioned in the Fourth Gospel; Mark, the secretary of the disciple Peter; and Luke, the traveling companion of Paul.
Is Luke an apostle? Luke was a physician and possibly a Gentile.
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