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James, brother of Jesus (2 C, 20 P) M. ... Pages in category "People in Acts of the Apostles" The following 70 pages are in this category, out of 70 total.
Acts 22 is the twenty-second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the events leading to Paul's imprisonment in Jerusalem. The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of Luke. [1]
[21] [22] The four times that James son of Alphaeus is mentioned directly in the Bible (each time in the list of the Apostles) the only family relationship stated is that his father is Alphaeus. [23] In two lists of the Apostles, the other James and John are listed as brothers and that their father is Zebedee. [24]
The 3rd century Apostolic Father Eusebius left a list of 12 bishops of the early church, of whom two, Joseph/Joses and Jude, may be the brothers of Jesus. [24] The number of sisters and their names are not specified in the New Testament, but the apocryphal 3rd century Gospel of Philip mentions a Mary, and Salome , who appears in the late 2nd ...
Acts 5:34, Acts 22:3† Herod Agrippa I: King of Judea Although his name is given as Herod by Luke, [n 8] and as Agrippa by Josephus, [174] the accounts both writers give about his death are so similar that they are commonly accepted to refer to the same person. [24] [175] Hence many modern scholars call him Herod Agrippa (I). Acts 12:1, Acts 12:21
The name "Acts of the Apostles" was first used by Irenaeus in the late 2nd century. It is not known whether this was an existing name for the book or one invented by Irenaeus; it does seem clear that it was not given by the author, as the word práxeis (deeds, acts) only appears once in the text (Acts 19:18) and there it refers not to the apostles but to deeds confessed by their followers.
Agrippa I, called "King Herod" or "Herod" in Acts 12; Felix governor of Judea who was present at the trial of Paul, and his wife Drusilla in Acts 24:24; Herod Agrippa II, king over several territories, before whom Paul made his defense in Acts 26. Herod Antipas, called "Herod the Tetrarch" or "Herod" in the Gospels and in Acts 4:27; Herodias ...
The Synoptic Gospels, similarly to the Epistle to the Galatians, recognize a core group of three disciples (Peter, John and James) having the same names as those given by Paul. In the list of the disciples found in the Gospels, two disciples whose names are James, the son of Alphaeus and James, son of Zebedee are mentioned in the list of the ...