Then a man on the shore told them to cast their net on the other side, whereupon the catch was so big that they were not able to draw it in. Realizing then that the man was Jesus, they came ashore and had breakfast with him.
Finally, Thomas is mentioned in the list of disciples who were gathered together in the upper room in Jerusalem after Jesus ascended to heaven, and we hear no more of him in the New Testament.
He is thought to have taken the gospel message to India, where he made many converts and eventually suffered martyrdom. Not much is known about James, the son of Alphaeus. Matthew is also referred to as a son of Alphaeus, so it may be that they were brothers.
Some people have suggested that he might be the same individual referred to in Mark as James the Less Mk Regardless, the story that has been handed down through history says that he was stoned to death in Jerusalem for preaching the Gospel. This Simon is not nearly as well-known as that other Simon who was renamed Peter by Jesus, and there is not much information about him. This movement culminated in a Jewish rebellion which led the Romans to destroy both Jerusalem and the temple in 70 A.
Simon is believed to have preached in Persia later on, where he was eventually martyred. His calling as an apostle is unique, in that his appointment was not made personally by Jesus, who had already ascended into heaven, and it was also made before the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the early Church. For it is written in the book of Acts, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.
Judas Iscariot is something of an enigma. We can only speculate. We cannot learn much from the details of his life, for they are very sketchy. Based on his last name, it appears that either he or his family was from the town of Kerioth in Judah, which means that he was also of the tribe of Judah. This makes him unique among the apostles, as all of the others, as far as we know, were Galileans and probably from other Israelite tribes.
He was the treasurer for Jesus and the disciples, a fact which adds to the mystery of his motivation, for if he had merely been motivated by money, he must have had ample opportunity to steal from their funds. John mentioned that Judas stole from the money bag regularly in John "He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.
The mystery is further complicated by the terrible remorse which he felt after the deed was done. He may not have realized that his actions would lead to Jesus being sentenced to death. Judas, therefore, has the unenviable position of having gone down in history as the one who betrayed the Messiah, yet the few details we have of him indicate that he was a man whose was nature was torn between good and evil. What was their profession? What does this mean?
The Twelve Apostles. Nobody knows for sure just how long Jesus ' ministry, teaching and travelling throughout the Holy Land, lasted. Some say three years, others as little as one. That Christianity grew, after such a brief inception, into the world religion we know to today is testimony to the power of the message Jesus preached.
But it is also due to a much simpler and often over-looked fact. He had more than a little help from his friends. Jesus chose his closest followers very carefully. He needed people he could trust to send out his message and to continue the work when he was no longer around to lead the nascent Christian movement. They were Jesus' most familiar allies and companions, but what do we really know about the lives and personalities of the twelve disciples?
We know that Jesus recruited from the community he grew up in, an environment with a simple but mixed economy where jobs were specialised and survival was all-important.
At least four of the disciples, James, brothers Peter and Andrew and John, were fisherman whose livelihood consisted of taking their boats out onto Lake Galilee to catch fish such as sardine and carp. It could be a hard existence at times. They may have had to take out loans to pay for equipment and had to hand over much of their catch in taxes to the Roman authorities who held considerable political and economic power over the entire region.
The paying of taxes may well have been a source of tension between the fishermen and the local individuals the Romans employed to perform the unenviable, but highly lucrative, job of collecting the taxes. By choosing one such tax collector, Matthew, as part of his close following, Jesus may have brought together a volatile combination of forces. Matthew's fellow disciples would have had to wrestle with difficult emotions when dealing with someone they would have been accustomed to treating with suspicion.
They may well have been other factors to upset the group dynamics of Jesus' team. The brothers James and John, also known as the 'sons of thunder', appear, according to the biblical account, to have had short, even violent, tempers. They also coveted the idea of being Jesus' deputies, which could have provoked disquiet amongst the other disciples. Despite all the potential problems they faced, somehow the Jesus movement managed to pull together in the same direction.
They were sent off, probably in small groups, to preach and to perform, on a smaller scale, many of the miraculous things Jesus did. They healed people of physical and psychological illness, perhaps utilising the reputation of their remarkable leader to gain the acceptance and belief of converts.
They suffered great hardships and dangers in a region controlled by Roman authorities, who had a nasty habit of brutally snuffing out political rebellions and messianic movements. They would have left the comfort of their family homes to hit the road, often sleeping rough and relying on the hospitality of locals for food and shelter. Travelling from village to village in Galilee and beyond to Jerusalem, they may have encountered bandits on solitary mountain tracks.
It was a difficult existence. There must have been arguments, jealousies and in-fighting along the way but the disciples were held together by the power of their charismatic and determined leader. They may not have always understood what his message was and their faith may have wavered at times but all of them, apart from the tragic case of Judas, stuck with him until his death.
After Jesus' crucifixion the disciples were left rudderless and disorientated but his appearance to them and the intensely motivating events of Pentecost rallied their spirits. From this point they found the strength to push forward with keeping Jesus' message alive carrying Christianity through the Near East and beyond.
They may have started out as a modest group of everyday fisherman, local officials and artisans, but they went on to become the driving force, keeping alive a small religious movement which flowered into a world religion. Peter is remembered by Christians as a saint ; the fisherman who became the right-hand man of Jesus himself, the leader of the early church and a father of the faith.
But how much of his fascinating story is true? How much do we know about the real Peter? Of all the disciples that Jesus chose we know most about Peter. He is one of the most carefully described characters in the New Testament, and yet the picture we have is a composite from various authors at various times and there are still many things the Bible does not tell us. However, there are other sources of evidence now available that can take us closer than ever before to the historical Peter.
Great insight can be drawn from modern science, archaeology and countless other ancient texts, many of which have only come to light recently having been lost for centuries.
The Bible tells us that Peter was a fisherman by trade and that he lived in the village of Capernaum on the shores of Lake Galilee. Early in three of the gospel accounts there is a story of Jesus healing Peter's mother-in-law, which clearly implies Peter had his own house and that it accommodated his extended family. All these details are historically plausible but recent archaeology has been able to support them with hard evidence.
While acquiring the boats, nets, and other equipment for successful fishing would have certainly taken at least a few weeks and perhaps longer, simply stepping back into an ongoing business would have been something they could have done easily and very quickly. This also explains the seaside setting after the resurrection when Jesus makes his final call to Peter as he is fishing. Even after seeing the resurrected Messiah both individually Luke ; 1 Cor.
John ff , Peter returned to the fishing trade rather than continuing in the footsteps of Jesus and making disciples—which admittedly was a risky business. In summary, many of the apostles, certainly Peter, Andrew, Philip and Nathaniel, and likely James and John as well, became followers of Jesus before he lived in Galilee, while John the Baptist was alive. Months later, after Jesus had performed many miracles and John the Baptist had been killed, Jesus told some of the Apostles he would make them fishers of men, and their discipleship intensified.
So when we study the full chronology of the calling of the Apostles, Jesus did not simply tell people who barely knew him to give up their occupations and follow him. He cultivated a relationship with his future Apostles, discipled them to some extent, and then finally called them into full-time ministry. The full account of how Peter and Andrew came into full-time ministry is helpful to those of us today who are not aware of the customs and processes involved in becoming a disciple of Jesus, or for that matter, of any rabbi of that time period.
Understanding that, we should also understand that the Bible does not need to give us an account of the discipleship process of all the Apostles. For example, we do not know how Matthew became a disciple of Jesus, but we know by custom and logic that it was not magical or mystical.
Jesus and Matthew must have somehow developed a relationship, and then at the right time Jesus asked Matthew to follow him. The fact that the Bible does not give us the details of how Matthew became a disciple does not mean it was a mystical experience.
Quite the opposite! If the process was ordinary, normal, and usual, then the Bible would not have to say anything about it because the reading audience would understand the process from their culture. However, if the calling of the disciples was mystical and unusual, then we should expect the Bible would say something about that for the benefit of the reading audience.
Written by John W. He was then reburied in a Roman burial ground several miles inland. According to a third story, Charlemagne had a dream shortly before he died in the 9th century in which he saw a star-lit road leading from France and Spain to the as yet undiscovered tomb of St. In the dream, God told Charlemagne it was duty to lead his army across the Pyrenees to free northern Spain from Moorish-Muslim rule.
Navarre and La Rioja. This assertion isn't backed up by any historical evidence. Discovery of St. He reported the phenomena to his superiors, who then gave him permission to dig up the spot. Pelagius dug and unearthed a perfumed body with a reattached head and a note attached to the body that read: "Santiago, son of Zebedee and Salome, brother of John, whom Herod beheaded in Jerusalem.
The Vatican then ordered a translation the removal of a relic a suitably holy site. The bones were placed in a crypt in a chapel called Campus Stella "Field Star" built on the field. Later the chapel was ensconced inside a huge cathedral that was built up over the centuries. Since the early Middle Ages, millions of pilgrims from all Europe, have converged on Santiago de Compostela to pay their respect to St. They have traveled on foot, on horseback, in carriages and in donkey carts.
Today, around , pilgrims and tourist each year follow the same route on foot, on horseback, with donkeys and on bicycles. Slightly more than half say they are walking for "religious reasons" and most are Spaniards or Germans. Pilgrims are often identified by a talisman or badge bearing a scallop shell, the coquille St. Jacque, or symbol of Saint James. No one is sure why the scallop shell was chose as the symbol for St.
James and his pilgrims. Many pilgrims claim the shell was first used by Charlemagne's armies but scholar it may have originated with a pre-Christian Venus cult of sexual gymnast who used to hold orgies at Stonehedge-like standing stone temples. Professor L. Tradition holds that they were both martyred in Rome in around the year This was after the great fire, and the emperor Nero seemed to have wanted to blame the fire on a variety of groups in Rome such as Jews and Christians.
Now what really happened to Peter and Paul, we can never say for sure but by the mid sixties, say between 62 and 64, it does appear that both Peter and Paul have died. About the same time Josephus tells us that James, the brother of Jesus at Jerusalem, has also been killed.
All in about the same two or three year period, so by the mid sixties the original first generation of leadership of the Christian movement has passed away and this is going to set the stage for an important shift that will occur within the next few years. At the same time the situation in Jerusalem itself was becoming a good bit more tense Page Top.
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