When.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: apostles in the new testament

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Apostles in the New Testament - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostles_in_the_New_Testament

    Each of the four listings of apostles in the New Testament [26] indicate that all the apostles were men. According to Christian tradition they were all Jews. [27] [28] The canonical gospels and the book of Acts give varying names of the Twelve Apostles. The list in the Gospel of Luke differs from Matthew and Mark on one point.

  3. Acts of the Apostles - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_the_Apostles

    The name "Acts of the Apostles" was first used by Irenaeus in the late 2nd century. It is not known whether this was an existing name for the book or one invented by Irenaeus; it does seem clear that it was not given by the author, as the word práxeis (deeds, acts) only appears once in the text (Acts 19:18) and there it refers not to the apostles but to deeds confessed by their followers.

  4. New Testament - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament

    The New Testament [a] (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. ... The earliest works of the New Testament are the letters of the Apostle Paul.

  5. Persecution of Christians in the New Testament - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians...

    Luke T. Johnson. "The New Testament's Anti-Jewish Slander and the Conventions of Ancient Polemic", Journal of Biblical Literature, 108.3 (1989): 419-441. James A. Kelhoffer. Persecution, Persuasion and Power: Readiness to Withstand Hardship as a Corroboration of Legitimacy in the New Testament. vol. 270. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010.

  6. Seventy disciples - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventy_disciples

    The seventy disciples (Greek: ἑβδομήκοντα μαθητές, hebdomikonta mathetes), known in the Eastern Christian traditions as the seventy apostles (Greek: ἑβδομήκοντα απόστολοι, hebdomikonta apostoloi), were early emissaries of Jesus mentioned in the Gospel of Luke. The number of those disciples varies between ...

  7. John the Apostle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Apostle

    John the Apostle [12] (Ancient Greek: Ἰωάννης; Latin: Ioannes; [13] c. 6 AD – c. 100 AD), also known as Saint John the Beloved and, in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Saint John the Theologian, [14] was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament.

  8. Saint Peter - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter

    Saint Peter [note 1] (born Shimon Bar Yonah; died AD 64–68), [1] also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, [6] was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and one of the first leaders of the early Christian Church. He appears repeatedly and prominently in all four New Testament gospels as well as the Acts of the ...

  9. Matthew the Apostle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_the_Apostle

    The New Testament records that as a disciple, Matthew followed Jesus. After Jesus' ascension, the disciples withdrew to an upper room (Acts 1:10–14) [13] (traditionally the Cenacle) in Jerusalem. [14] The disciples remained in and about Jerusalem and proclaimed that Jesus was the promised Messiah.