St. Matthew (flourished 1st century ce, Palestine; Western feast day September 21, Eastern feast day November 16) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ and the traditional author of the first Synoptic Gospel (the Gospel According to Matthew). According to Matthew 9:9 and Mark 2:14...
apostle; ChristianityThe Twelve Apostles, fresco by Enrico Reffo, 1914; in the San Dalmazzo church in Turin, Italy. Jesus was aJew, as were all theapostles. Thus the earliest Christianity is in fact a movement within Judaism; the very acknowledgment of Jesus as “the Christ” professes that...
17Now Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples aside on the road and said to them,18“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death,19and deliver Him to the Gent...
24 One of the twelve disciples, Thomas (nicknamed the Twin),[o] was not with the others when Jesus came. 25 They told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he replied, “I won’t believe it unless I see the nail wounds in his hands, put my fingers into them, and place my hand...
Although Montaigne’sEssaisare an essential part of the literary canon, I must confess that I had not read his account of this unfortunate fall until my later years—last month, in fact, about twelve hours after I flew off my bicycle to make my own painful fall to earth. Such a timely...
Jesus Speaks a Third Time about his Death (Mk 10.32–34; Lk 18.31–34) 17As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside and spoke to them privately, as they walked along. 18“Listen,” he told them, “we are going up to Jerusalem, where the Son of Man ...
You remember where he goes into the pool off the diving board? Alex came up to me and said, "Bill, I've been an actor for twelve years and I've never refused to do what a director tells me, but I'm scared to death of snakes. Is there anything you can do?" So I told him ...
The old man asks, “Where are you going, Paul?” Only reluctantly, after some encouragement from the Holy Spirit, does Paul speak with him and give the Gnostic sign he has learned. The eighth heaven then opens and Paul ascends. Here he embraces thetwelve disciples, most of whom he has ...
5) Believers are Cleansed from ongoing inadvertent sin [purification through the antitypical ashes of the red heifer – depicted in Jesus washing of the disciples’ feet] ii) Partaking of the Bread [eating of the flesh of Jesus] shows: ...
For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings.New Living TranslationInstead, I sometimes think God has put ...