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Apostles in the New Testament. The Last Supper, a late 1490s mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci, is a depiction of the last supper of Jesus and his Twelve Apostles on the eve of his crucifixion. Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan. Jesus and his Twelve Apostles, fresco with the Chi-Rho symbol ☧, Catacombs of Domitilla, Rome.
Bartholomew[a] was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Most scholars today identify Bartholomew as Nathanael, [6] who appears in the Gospel of John (1:45–51; cf. 21:2). [7][8][9] Bartholomew the Apostle, detail of the mosaic in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, 6th century.
The Synoptic Gospels list Philip as one of the apostles. The Gospel of John recounts Philip's calling as a disciple of Jesus. [1] Philip is described as a disciple from the city of Bethsaida, and the evangelist connects him with Andrew and Peter, who were from the same town. He also was among those surrounding John the Baptist when the latter ...
After Jesus' ascension, the disciples withdrew to an upper room (Acts 1:10–14) [11] (traditionally the Cenacle) in Jerusalem. [12] The disciples remained in and about Jerusalem and proclaimed that Jesus was the promised Messiah. In the Babylonian Talmud (Sanhedrin 43a), "Mattai" is one of five disciples of "Jeshu". [13]
Erastus, Olympus, Rhodion, Sosipater, Quartus and Tertius. Stachys, Amplias, Urban. Patrobulus, Hermas, Linus, Caius, Philologus. Sosthenes, Apollo, Cephas, Tychicus, Epaphroditus, Cæsar and Onesiphorus. The feast day commemorating the seventy is known as the " Synaxis of the Seventy Disciples" in Eastern Orthodoxy, and is celebrated on ...
John the Apostle[12] (Ancient Greek: Ἰωάννης; Latin: Ioannes[13] c. 6 AD – c. 100 AD; Ge'ez: ዮሐንስ;), also known as Saint John the Beloved and, in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Saint John the Theologian, [14] was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Generally listed as the youngest apostle, he ...
Vocation of the Apostles, a fresco in the Sistine Chapel by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1481-82. The commissioning of the Twelve Apostles is an episode in the ministry of Jesus that appears in all three Synoptic Gospels: Matthew 10:1–4, Mark 3:13–19 and Luke 6:12–16. It relates the initial selection of the Twelve Apostles among the disciples of ...
Thomas the Apostle (Greek: Θωμᾶς, romanized:Thōmâs; Aramaic ܬܐܘܡܐ, romanized:Tʾōmā, meaning "the twin"), [ a ] also known as Didymus (Greek: Δίδυμος, romanized: Dídymos, meaning "twin"), was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Thomas is commonly known as " Doubting Thomas " because he ...