Paul is the only apostle who was not "set up by God (not man) from the time when John baptized until the day when the Lord left us and was taken up". The Bible clearly tells us that Paul is a true apostle "sent by the Holy Spirit".
After the Lord Jesus began to preach, he personally selected twelve disciples from the believers as apostles and his assistants. This 12 person was called the "Twelve Apostles" and was later called the "Twelve Apostles". The Twelve Apostles is a Christian term meaning "sent".
According to the Bible, the twelve apostles are Peter, Andre, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James, Thaddaeus, Simon and Judas Iscariot, sons of Alphaeus. According to the four gospels, the names of the twelve apostles are arranged in a slightly different order, but Peter is the head and Judas, the traitor, is the last.
According to Acts, Judas, the twelfth apostle, committed suicide after betraying Jesus. The disciples chose two people, one is Bathsheba and the other is Matthias. When they had finished praying, they drew lots, rolled Matthias out and joined the eleven apostles. This happened before Pentecost. This is very important because it is related to Matthias by-election to replace Judas Calvary, out of the will of the people or the Holy Spirit.
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1, Andrew (also translated as Andrew):
Simon Peter's brother. Be honest and upright. At first, he was a disciple of John the Baptist. After hearing John the Baptist say that Jesus is the Messiah, he and his brother Simon Peter followed Jesus. There are not many accounts of Andrew in the Bible. It is said that after Jesus ascended to heaven, he went to the Balkans and the Black Sea to preach.
Around AD 60, Patra of Greece was crucified and martyred, so the forked cross was called "Andrew's Cross". The Greek church called Andrew "the first called apostle", and regarded him as a guardian saint, and he was also a guardian saint in Scotland. The Catholic Church has designated165438+1October 30th as its anniversary.
2. John (also translated as "failure"):
The son of Zebedee and the brother of old James. Jesus' favorite disciple. Together with his brother James, Jesus called him "Lei Zi". After Jesus was arrested, he followed him to the courtyard of the high priest to find out the news. When Jesus was crucified, he was the only one among the twelve apostles, so Jesus entrusted his mother Mary to his care.
After Jesus ascended to heaven, John and Peter joined hands to actively carry out missionary activities, which Paul called "the pillar of the church." John was exiled by the Roman government to preach on Patmos Island in western Asia Minor, where he saw a vision and wrote the apocalypse. Later, John was released to preach in Ephesus and took Mary to Ephesus for support.
Moved by the Holy Spirit, he wrote the Gospel of John and three letters of John. He died in 106. The Catholic Church has designated 65438+February 27th as its anniversary.
3. bartholomew (also translated as "bardo Lumao"):
Some scholars think that he is Nathanael, a disciple introduced to Jesus by Philip. Frank and honest, outspoken and quick. Philip told Nathanael that he had met the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Yue Se. Nathanael did not believe it and blurted out, "What good can Nazareth do?"
So when Jesus saw him, he praised him and said, "I have no deceit in my heart!" " He immediately replied, "Rabbi, you are the son of God, and you are the king of Israel." After Jesus ascended to heaven, he preached in India, Armenia and other places, and finally died in Armenia, beheaded, skinned and crucified.
In Michelangelo's famous painting The Last Judgment, Bartoloma announced the trial from the sky. The Catholic Church has designated August 24th as a memorial day.
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