OverviewApostles – disciples, but more than thatWhere they came fromTheir selectionWhat and how they learnedWhat was their function?Where did they go?What we know and what we don’t knowApostolic successionVeneration of apostles and saintsWhat is an apostle?Apostle or disciple? Matthew 10:1-2; 20:17; 26:20Squares and rectanglesApostle = ambassador (apostle: one chosen and sent)Apostles were disciplesNot all disciples were apostlesNot all apostles were apostles – Acts 13:1-3; 14:14Barnabas and Paul were listed as apostles here because they were specifically sent on a limited commission to preach the gospel. This does not mean that Barnabas was now one of the twelve apostles.Where did they come from?Humble or despised meansFishermenTax collectorsPolitical radicalsFrom where did the wise come?JerusalemBabylon – Matthew 2:1-2Why did God not choose the wise?Luke 10:21-24Most of the apostles not from Jerusalem or BabylonNot from among the rabbis or scribes or other scholarsWhat can I teach a scholar?What can I teach an infant?Really, where from?Don’t know physical origins of allPeter, Andrew, Phillip, Bartholomew (Nathanael) – Bethsaida (John 1:43-51)Peter, Andrew – Capernaum (WHAT?) (Mark 1:21-22, 29; Luke 4:31-32, 38)Where was Jesus from?Bethlehem? Nazareth? Capernaum? Matthew 4:13James and John, sons of Zebedee – by the Sea of Galilee (Matthew 4:18-22)Matthew – Capernaum (Matthew 9:9)Paul (Saul) – TarsusThomas, James son of Alphaeus, Judas (not Iscariot), Simon the Zealot, Judas Iscariot, Matthias – UnknownComing weeksWhen the apostles were just disciplesChoosing the apostlesSchooling the apostlesDuties of the apostlesTradition and historyVeneration of apostles and saintsApostolic succession
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