About this app
This free app speaks about the 12 apostles of Jesus. It gives an account of the works and struggles each of the disciples has gone through.
The 12 apostles (or disciples) of Jesus were the foundation stones of His church. Several of the apostles even wrote portions of the Bible. In Revelation 21:14 we are told that the twelve foundations of the wall of the New Jerusalem will have in them the names of the twelve apostles. It is evident, therefore, that God attaches great importance to these 12 men.
As we study these courageous first-century lives, and what discipleship meant in the time of Jesus, we may expect to be aided in developing a Spirit-directed twenty-first-century discipleship as Christ must have meant it to be.
The following biographical information about the 12 original disciples of Jesus uses the New Testament accounts along with the most respected legends and traditions. We do not mean to infer, that legend and tradition constitute historical fact. We do feel, however, that they do have value in the study of the lives of these men who "…turned the world upside down…".
The names of the 12 disciples of Jesus are listed as below.
1.Peter
2.James
3.John
4.Andrew
5.Bartholomew or Nathanael
6.James, the Lesser or Younger
7.Judas
8.Jude or Thaddeus
9.Matthew or Levi
10.Philip
11.Simon the Zealot
12.Thomas
Matthias the apostle is technically also one of the Twelve, but usually not included in lists for a couple reasons:
i.He was appointed after the death of Judas Iscariot.
ii.He wasn’t called into the group by Jesus.
Four passages in the Bible list the names of all 12 apostles (technically the last one only lists 11, because Judas Iscariot was dead). Some of the apostles play key roles in well-known Bible stories. Others are only mentioned in the lists of apostles, or they have a single line of dialogue in the gospels.
A few of the apostles were known by multiple names, which can make these lists and other references to them confusing. In some cases, disciples with common names have been mistakenly identified with other biblical figures who had the same name. For example, Philip the Apostle is definitely not Philip the Evangelist, who appears in Acts 6:5, Acts 8:5–6, and Acts 21:8.
Much of what we “know” about the apostles comes from church tradition. Unfortunately, tradition often embraced legends alongside facts, and it can be difficult to discern details about where the disciples went, what they did, and how they died without assuming the legends surrounding them are rooted in truth. This is especially true for the more obscure disciples.
Today, many Christians simply accept tradition (and therefore the legends) at face value. But if we care about truth and claim to represent it, we have a duty to examine this information more critically, and we need to be willing to accept when we simply don’t know something.
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