Posts with the category “fate-of-the-disciples”

YouTube has produced a skit that features the 11 disciples after Jesus' death. They confess to having stolen Jesus' body from His tomb and were discussing how they would say He had been raised from th...  Read More

Thomas is not mentioned very much in the Gospels. In fact, in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, he is only in the lists of the disciples. However, in the Gospel of John, he is in two important stories. When Je...  Read More

Philip, the apostle, is not mentioned in the first three gospels other than in the lists of the apostles. However, he is a frequent character in the book of John.  Philip had been among the followers ...  Read More

Matthew was a tax collector in the service of Herod Antipas, tetrarch  of Galilee. As such, he was hated by patriotic Jews and the general populace. Tax collectors most often increased the amount of m...  Read More

Thaddeus was born to a Jewish family in Panias Galilee near where Jesus grew up. He was a farmer by trade, his mother was a cousin of Jesus’ mother, Mary, and his father was a brother of Joseph and Ja...  Read More

A little known fact is that John’s cousin was Jesus. His mother was the sister of Mary, Jesus’ mother. When Jesus called John to be a disciple, he was fishing with his brother, James, and his father, ...  Read More

James and John, fishermen and two of Jesus’ disciples, were brothers and possibly cousins of Jesus. Their mother, Salome, was the sister of Mary, Jesus’ mother. Jesus called James and his brother, Joh...  Read More

By the end of the 1st century, there existed a tradition that Peter lived in Rome and further evidence is found in the Letter to the Romans by St. Ignatius, the early 2nd century bishop of Antioch – a...  Read More

After Jesus’ death and resurrection, Andrew is said to have preached in areas around the Mediterranean and Black Seas, and he established the early orthodox church at Patras called the Church of Saint...  Read More

Tradition has James establishing Christianity in Spain, and he has become the patron saint of Spain....  Read More

Bartholomew has been mentioned in many accounts as having ministered in India, Ethiopia, Mesopotamia, Parthia (in Iran), Lyconia (in Turkey), and Armenia....  Read More

Just before He was arrested, Jesus went to the Garden of Gethsemane to pray. His prayers were very intense and sorrowful, but the apostles all fell asleep, numerous times. Jesus said to them, “Are you...  Read More