The “...entire mission of three months in Perea was successfully carried on with little help from the twelve apostles, and the presentations from this time on reflected,

The seventy were sent for a three-month mission of teaching and preaching. “This was the final period of the teachings, and there was, accordingly, an absence of miracle working.” Attendance at these sessions grew to over four thousand people who came to hear Jesus or Peter preach each morning. “The Master chose to terminate

“Jesus, taking Nathaniel and Thomas, secretly went to Jerusalem to attend the feast of the dedication. Not until they passed over the Jordan at the Bethany ford did the

Jesus chose seventy well-trained and experienced disciples to engage in public teaching. Jesus talked to this company each morning. “Peter taught methods of public preaching; Nathaniel instructed them in the art of teaching; Thomas explained how to answer questions; while Matthew directed the organization of their group finances.” After being ordained as teachers, the seventy went out in pairs for

Jesus took the apostles to Jerusalem for the feast of tabernacles. “Long before they fled from Galilee, the followers of Jesus had advised going to Jerusalem to proclaim the doctrine of the new age in order that this message might have the prestige of having been preached at the center of Jewish culture and learning; but now that

A topic of much debate between Rodan and the apostles was the personality of the Creator. “Rodan contended that the fact of personality consists in the coexistent fact

Rodan was a Greek philosopher who had recently become a disciple of Jesus, and “was now earnestly engaged in the task of harmonizing a personal philosophy of life with Jesus’

This was a four-week teaching and preaching tour of the cities of the Decapolis. Jesus “...directed that each of the apostles should associate with one of the twelve

Jesus took three close apostles up Mount Hermon to witness the arrival of celestial beings who came to address “the transaction of important matters having to do with the progress of the bestowal mission as this experience was related to the local universe.” Their experience of this event powerfully impressed them. “The apostles were truly afraid; they were a silent and thoughtful trio as they prepared to descend the mountain shortly before midnight.” It was also on this occasion that Jesus spoke about dying and rising from the dead. “Jesus requested silence about their observation of this prelude to death and resurrection, not wanting to foster the notion that their erroneous concepts of

In this paper the apostles grapple with understanding Jesus’ divinity. “Jesus had spent long months in training these apostles and realized that the time had come when it