Are there 13 disciples

The same Peter who attacked a Roman soldier who was in the party that arrested Jesus in the garden. Jesus Christ is the Apostle and High Priest of our profession.

Who is also God. Heb Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;. As thinking followers of Jesus, may we ask what the theological implications of this discussion are?

Are there men and women who go to a people group, share the gospel that results in the establishment of 1 or more churches, and this person oversees them as a parent would a child and adolescent, teaching them and correcting them to grow in the faith?

That would be what an apostle does. Would that not be apostle? The woman was instantly healed, so she asked Mama Beth to pray for her family, and out of all this there was born an underground church in Saudi Arabia.

Then more churches were born. When I met Mama Beth in she was overseeing all these house churches, praying for them, encouraging them and visiting them as she could. To me, these fruit sound a lot like the apostle Paul on his missionary journeys. I introduce myself I am Emma of the brand Jesus King jesus-king. We are lovers of God, and we would like to work with you. We propose you an affiliate program which consists in sharing our site and according to the sales thanks to this sharing you will receive a commission.

The Scriptures are the only way. However, there may be as many as 25 apostles mentioned in the Bible. To many it comes as a surprise that 25 individuals are mentioned as apostles in the pages of the New Testament! Imagine—twenty five apostles! This eye-opener paves the way […]. B Mark Anderson. How Many Apostles in the New Testament—12 or 25? May 20, by B Mark Anderson 72 Comments. How Many Apostles? Have you led someone to Christ? Tell your story here!

Comments kraig desmedt says. August 28, at am. B Mark Anderson says. August 28, at pm. Dear Brother Kraig, Thanks you so much for your words. KJV 23 As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker among you; as for our brethren, they are messengers of the churches, a glory to Christ.

NASB Please write again. Your comments will be helpful. Thank you, Mark. February 23, at am. March 3, at pm. Domenico Vitale says. April 4, at am. May 24, at pm. Rachel says. May 18, at am. Matthew Bigelow says.

June 28, at am. Here are a few translations of Romans June 28, at pm. Karen Scott says. February 9, at pm. Vern Wall says. A passage in the bible is to be interpreted depending on to whom it is addressed. This entire book is addressed to a bishop, telling him how to lead a congregation.

Jon Houser says. August 6, at pm. July 4, at pm. October 5, at pm. October 8, at pm. God bless you as we all continue seeking truth in love, Mark. Matthew says. October 31, at am. Perhaps we have all missed an important point. November 3, at am. November 15, at pm. Hi Mark, You kind of ran around the point I was making in your reply. JD says. January 21, at pm. September 8, at pm. How about Mary Magdalena? September 10, at am. Thanks for your question.

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August 15, at pm. Corey says. September 23, at am. David says. February 8, at pm. How about the 72? Just a thought? March 10, at am. God bless you, Mark. April 1, at pm. December 26, at am. Then we have Ephesians And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: If we still have teachers, we must still have some apostles.

Kordell says. October 26, at pm. Answer: No, not yet. Therefore, we still need every gift that Jesus still gives to us. John says. November 20, at pm. March 29, at pm. Hi Bro John. Thanks for writing. Please keep searching the Scriptures. So, in answer to your question, casting lots was exactly how it was done.

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Hi Timothy, You sound like a good student of the Bible. Jim Scott says. September 16, at pm. Again, look to Revelation where the number twelve is unambiguous. Jim Newman says. November 17, at pm. Heb Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; Jesus was not considered in the orignal12 apostles he chose and Paul he later chose. Tim Kobernik says.

Matthew's names mean "a gift of God. It is likely that James the lesser, who was one of the twelve Apostles, was Matthew's brother, also the son of Alpheus. Although we know little about Matthew personally, the outstanding fact about him is that he was a tax collector. The King James Version calls him a publican, which in Latin is Publicanus, meaning engaged in public service, a man who handled public money, or a tax gatherer. Of all the nations in the world, the Jews were the most vigorous haters of tax gatherers.

To the devout Jew, God was the only one to whom it was right to pay tribute in taxes. To pay it to anyone else was to infringe on the rights of God. The tax collectors were hated not on religious grounds only but because most of them were notoriously unjust. In the minds of many honest, Jewish men, these tax collectors were regarded as criminals.

In New Testament times they were classified with harlots, Gentiles and sinners Matthew ; Matthew , 33; Matthew 9;10; Mark ,16; Luke Tax collectors had been known to assess duty payable at impossible sums and then offer to lend the money to travelers at a high rate of interest.

Such was Matthew. Yet, Jesus chose a man all men hated and made him one of His men. It took Jesus Christ to see the potential in the tax collector of Capernaum. Matthew was unlike the other Apostles, who were mostly fishermen. He could use a pen, and by his pen he became the first man to present to the world, in the Hebrew language, an account of the teaching of Jesus. It is clearly impossible to estimate the debt that Christianity owes to this despised tax gatherer. The average man would have thought it impossible to reform Matthew, but to God all things are possible.

Matthew became the first man to write down the teachings of Jesus. He was a missionary of the Gospel, who laid down his life for the faith of his Master. The apostolic symbol of Matthew is three money bags which reminds us that he was a tax collector before Jesus called him.

Tradition says that disciple Philip preached in Phrygia and died a martyr at Hierapolis. Philip came from Bethsaida, the town from which Peter and Andrew came John The likelihood is that he, too, was a fisherman. Although the first three Gospels record his name Matthew ; Mark ; Luke ; Acts , it is in the Gospel of John that Philip becomes a living personality. Scholars disagree on Philip.

In Acts , we have Philip as one of the seven ordained deacons. Some say this is a different Philip. Some believe this is the Apostle. If this is the same Philip, then his personality came more to life because he had a successful campaign in Samaria.

He led the Ethiopian eunuch to Christ Acts He also stayed with Paul in Caesarea Acts and was one of the major figures in the missionary enterprise of the early church. But Philip did not argue with him; he simply answered, "Come and see.

First, it shows his right approach to the skeptic and his simple faith in Christ. Second, it shows that he had a missionary instinct. Philip was a man with a warm heart and a pessimistic head. He was one who would very much like to do something for others, but who did not see how it could be done. Yet, this simple Galilean gave all he had.

In return God used him. It is said that he died by hanging. While he was dying, he requested that his body be wrapped not in linen but in papyrus for he was not worthy that even his dead body should be treated as the body of Jesus had been treated.

The symbol of Philip is a basket, because of his part in the feeding of the five thousand. It is he that stressed the cross as a sign of Christianity and victory. Simon, the Zealot, one of the little-known followers called the Canaanite or Zelotes, lived in Galilee. Tradition says he was crucified. However, in the other two places he is called Simon Zelotes Luke ; Acts The New Testament gives us practically nothing on him personally except that it says he was a Zealot.

The Zealots were fanatical Jewish Nationalists who had heroic disregard for the suffering involved and the struggle for what they regarded as the purity of their faith. The Zealots were crazed with hatred for the Romans. It was this hate for Rome that destroyed the city of Jerusalem. Josephus says the Zealots were reckless persons, zealous in good practices and extravagant and reckless in the worst kind of actions.

From this background, we see that Simon was a fanatical Nationalist, a man devoted to the Law, a man with bitter hatred for anyone who dared to compromise with Rome.

Yet, Simon clearly emerged as a man of faith. He abandoned all his hatred for the faith that he showed toward his Master and the love that he was willing to share with the rest of the disciples and especially Matthew, the Roman tax collector. Simon, the Zealot, the man who once would have killed in loyalty to Israel, became the man who saw that God will have no forced service.

Tradition says he died as a martyr. His apostolic symbol is a fish lying on a Bible, which indicates he was a former fisherman who became a fisher of men through preaching. Thomas Didymus lived in Galilee. Thomas, India. Thomas was his Hebrew name and Didymus was his Greek name. At times he was called Judas. Matthew, Mark and Luke tell us nothing about Thomas except his name. However, John defines him more clearly in his Gospel.

Thomas appeared in the raising of Lazarus John , in the Upper Room John where he wanted to know how to know the way where Jesus was going. In John , we see him saying unless he sees the nail prints in Jesus' hand and the gash of the spear in His side he will not believe. That's why Thomas became known as Doubting Thomas.

By nature, Thomas was a pessimist. He was a bewildered man. Yet, he was a man of courage. He was a man who could not believe until he had seen. He was a man of devotion and of faith. When Jesus rose, he came back and invited Thomas to put his finger in the nail prints in his hands and in his side. Here, we see Thomas making the greatest confession of faith, "My Lord and my God.

By this very fact Thomas' faith became great, intense and convincing. It is said that he was commissioned to build a palace for the king of India, and he was killed with a spear as a martyr for his Lord. His symbol is a group of spears, stones and arrows. Matthias was selected to replace Judas as recorded in Acts It is noted in Acts Chapter 1 that Peter proposed to the brethren that they needed to select one man to replace the fallen Judas Iscariot.

Two disciples, Joseph, called Barsabas, and Matthias, were selected. The final decision between these two was carried out by lots, which were drawn with a result in favor of Matthias—who then became one of the Twelve Apostles. Imagine being either Matthias or Joseph in this circumstance. First, quite an honor to be nominated to steal a popular line from the Oscars.

Then, as both men were deemed worthy, there was no clear way to make the final decision. As such, lots were drawn. Meaning, the final election of the Twelfth Aspostle was chosen in part by random chance. This seems a bit odd, but again we do not understand or need to understand all of God's actions. At that time, if you were this Joseph, how would you feel?

If he was truly a pious man, I suppose he would not care much about being left out of this enigmatic inner circle. But, I would have to believe that at times throughout the rest of his life, he would question to God why he was not chosen, etc. We will never know, until we are able to meet Joseph in the New Heaven and the New Earth—along with the other early Church leaders.