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So συγγενής (sungenēs) can mean relative even as broadly as fellow Jew. According to tradition, Herodion of Patras was numbered among the Seventy Disciples and became bishop of Patras, where he suffered greatly. After beating, stoning, and stabbing him; they left him for dead, but St. Herodion arose and continued to serve the Apostles.
The seventy disciples (Greek: ἑβδομήκοντα μαθητές, hebdomikonta mathetes), known in the Eastern Christian traditions as the seventy apostles (Greek: ἑβδομήκοντα απόστολοι, hebdomikonta apostoloi), were early emissaries of Jesus mentioned in the Gospel of Luke. The number of those disciples varies between ...
If we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning, and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. Cushing wrote this hymn in New York after he became a Christian minister in 1854; he started writing hymns in 1870 when his health declined, forcing him to retire.
[5] [6] The initial four stanzas with the questions are in Jesus' voice, and the fifth stanza is the singer's response to them. [1] The hymn is based on Mark 1:16–20 and alludes to Jesus calling his disciples to follow him. [5] C. Michael Hawn calls it a prophetic Christian hymn and mentioned that it contains words uncommon to other hymns. [2]
He is said to have been one of the seventy disciples, mentioned in the Gospel of Luke, commissioned to preach the gospel. [1] It is said that Agabus was with the twelve apostles in the upper room on the day of Pentecost. [2] According to Acts 11:27–28, he was one of a group of prophets who travelled from Jerusalem to Antioch.
Carpus of Beroea (Greek: Κάρπος) of the Seventy Disciples is commemorated by the Church on 26 May with St. Alphaeus, and on 4 January with the rest of the Seventy Disciples. In his second Epistle to Timothy ( 2 Timothy 4:13 ), Paul requests, "The phelonion that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books."
Luke's treatment of this Great Commandment differs from those of Mark and Matthew, where Jesus directly instructed his disciples that these are the greatest commandments in the Law. The lawyer then asked who his 'neighbour' is. In response, Jesus told a story of a traveller, presumably a Jew, [20] who is beaten, robbed, and left half dead along ...
This calling of the first Apostles, which eventually become a group of twelve, made the two fishermen early followers of Jesus.There is a parallel account in Mark 1:16–20 and a similar but different story in Luke 5:1–11, the Luke story not including the phrase "fishers of men" (or similar wording).