While a disciple is a student, one who learns from a teacher, an apostle is sent to deliver those teachings to others. "Apostle" means messenger, he who is sent. An apostle is sent to deliver or spread those teachings to others. ... We can say that all apostles were disciples butall...
In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which is translated as Dorcas), who was always occupied with works of kindness and charity. / At that time, however, she became sick and died, and her body was washed and placed in an upper room. / Since Lydda was near Joppa, the ...
If only one disciple were called at a time, the reader’s attention would be diverted from Jesus to that disciple. (What was it about that particular man that made Jesus call him?) The intent here, however, is to present Jesus as the adept, rightful leader. That a second pair of brot...
There he was transfigured before them. 3 His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them. 4 And there appeared before them Elijah and Moses, who were talking with Jesus. 5 Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to...
40The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master. 41And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 42Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull...
and Luke informs us that he is a ruler of some sort. But none of those details really changes the basic nature of the encounter: a potential disciple comes to Jesus seeking guidance and Jesus tells him that he must give up everything he possesses –“You lack one thing; go, sell what...
not servants, for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth; and thus, as in the Old Testament to Abraham, the friend of God, and to Daniel, a man greatly beloved, so in the New Testament to the disciple who leaned on Jesus' bosom, are shown the things which God was about to ...
16 Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek: 2 Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium. 3 Him would ...
Thus in the inability of Jesus’ love to absolutely and completely prevent failure, we have a lesson to be learned that love does risk failure in order to redeem, and Judas represents the unknown quantity in life. He was potentially both a disciple and a betrayer, but so were the other ...
city, many of the better class of citizens “withdrew from Jerusalem as from a sinking ship.” This was the time when the disciples left Jerusalem; for we have no account of a single disciple perishing in its siege. Vespasian and Titus in a short time renewed the siege, and then the ...