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This has become known popularly as the "153 fish" miracle. In the Gospel of John, [6] seven of the disciples—Peter, Thomas, Nathanael, the sons of Zebedee (James and John), and two others—decided to go fishing one evening after the Resurrection of Jesus, but caught nothing that night. Early the next morning, Jesus (whom they had not ...
[1] [2] The Synoptic Gospels (Matthew 17:1–8, Mark 9:2–13, Luke 9:28–36) recount the occasion, and the Second Epistle of Peter also refers to it. In the gospel accounts, Jesus and three of his apostles, Peter, James, and John, go to a mountain (later referred to as the Mount of Transfiguration) to pray. On the mountaintop, Jesus begins to ...
Mount Hermon (2,814 metres or 9,232 feet high) was suggested by J. Lightfoot (1602–1675) and R. H. Fuller (1915–2007) [2] for two reasons: It is the highest site in the area [given that the Transfiguration took place on "a high mountain" (Matthew 17:1)], and it is located near Caesarea Philippi (Matthew 16:13), where the previous events reportedly took place.
He is one of the sons of Zebedee and Salome, the younger brother of Big James, and a former fishing partner of Simon Peter and Andrew. Jesus nicknames him and his brother, Big James, the "sons of thunder". Alongside Simon Peter and Big James, John is a part of Jesus's inner circle.
The upper register of the painting includes, from left to right, James, Peter and John, [29] traditionally read as symbols of faith, hope and love; hence the symbolic colours of blue-yellow, green and red for their robes. [3] In the lower register, Raphael depicts the Apostles attempting to free the possessed boy of his demonic possession. They ...
Below them are the three disciples named as present in the Synoptic Gospels: Saints Peter, James, son of Zebedee and John the Evangelist. [ 4 ] The Gospel accounts ( Matthew 17:1–9 , Mark 9:2–8 , Luke 9:28–36 ) describe the disciples as "sore afraid", but also as initially "heavy with sleep", and waking to see Jesus talking with Moses and ...
The oldest known images of some of the apostles are in the catacombs of St Tecla in Rome, dated to the 4th century. [8] The frescoes include Paul, Peter, John and Andrew, serving as a funerary devotional image, to protect the occupants of the tomb. [8]
With Peter, James and John, he goes to a high mountain, traditionally understood and commemorated as Mount Tabor, [2] where he is transfigured. Mount Tabor is in the south of Galilee. [ 3 ] By verse 14 they have returned to a location where the crowd is gathered, verse 22 notes that they are still in Galilee, and in verse 24 they have returned ...