He is no dextrous-fingered college boy but rather a dedicated, humble, and bashful apostle of this instrument.

On the basis of these traditions, the churches in question often claim to have inherited specific authority, doctrines and / or practices on the authority of their founding apostle ( s ), which is understood to be continued by the bishops of the see ( seat ) or throne of the church that each founded and whose original leader he was.

Saint Apollos ( Ἀπολλώς ; contracted from Apollonius ) is an apostle who is also a 1st century Alexandrian Jewish Christian mentioned several times in the New Testament.

After Christians in Ephesus first wrote to their counterparts recommending Apollos to them, he went to Achaia where Paul names him as an apostle ( 1 Cor 4: 6, 9-13 ) Given that Paul only saw himself as an apostle ' untimely born ' ( 1 Cor 15: 8 ) it is certain that Apollos became an apostle in the regular way ( as a witness to the risen Lord and commissioned by Jesus-1 Cor 15: 5-9 ; 1 Cor 9: 1 ).< ref > So the Alexandrian recension ; the text in < sup > 38 </ sup > and Codex Bezae indicate that Apollos went to Corinth.

The other apostle James, the son of Alphaeus, is not prominent in the Scriptural record, and very little is known about him.

Authorship has also occasionally been attributed to the apostle James the Great, brother of John the Evangelist and son of Zebedee The letter does mention persecutions in the present tense ( 2: 6 ), and this is consistent with the persecution in Jerusalem during which James the Great was martyred ( Acts 12: 1 ).

Some scholars have argued that since the author of that letter has not identified himself as an apostle and actually refers to the apostles as a third party, he cannot be identified with the Jude who is listed as one of the Twelve.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot | Lightfoot notes with respect to verse 6: 11 that at this point " the apostle takes the pen from his amanuensis, and the concluding paragraph is written with his own hand ".

" At this point the apostle takes the pen from his amanuensis, and the concluding paragraph is written with his own hand.

It is at this time, whether premeditated or due to an extended stay with the apostle various internal matters are revealed to Paul on the part of Epaphroditus (,,, ,, and ).

Tychicus is named as the bearer of the letter, just as he is in Ephesians and Philemon, and he is to tell the recipients of the state of the apostle.

It is striking that the apostle writes in Col 1: 28 " Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

The purposes of the apostle in dictating this letter to his Amanuensis Tertius is also articulated in the second half of:

Fornication is not the only ground for excommunication, according to the apostle: in, Paul says, " I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler-not even to eat with such a one.

The first epistle of Paul the apostle to the Corinthians, often referred to as First Corinthians ( and written as 1 Corinthians ), is the seventh book of the New Testament of the Bible.

The author claims to be Saint Peter the apostle, and the epistle was traditionally held to have been written during his time as bishop of Rome or Bishop of Antioch, though neither title is used in the epistle.

The apostle Paul believes healing is one of the special gifts of the Holy Spirit, and that the possibility exists that certain persons may possess this gift to an extraordinarily high degree.

The other biblical references to Cana are in John 4: 46, which mentions Jesus is visiting Cana when he is asked to heal the son of a royal official at Capernaum ; and John 21: 2, where it is mentioned that the apostle Nathanael ( usually identified with the Bartholomew included in the synoptic gospels ' lists of apostles ) comes from Cana.

On occasions in the past, when part or all of the First Presidency have been absent, whoever the First Presidency requests to conduct the Conference may do so, usually the most senior apostle not in the First Presidency.

It is the fictional story of the making of a silver chalice to hold the Holy Grail ( itself here conflated with the Holy Chalice ) and includes 1st century biblical and historical figures: Luke, Joseph of Arimathea, Simon Magus and his companion Helena, and the apostle Peter.

Andrzej Bobola ( sometimes Andrew Bobola, 1591 – 16 May 1657 ) was a Polish missionary and martyr of the Society of Jesus, known as the apostle of Lithuania and the " hunter of souls ".

The town's Mormon bishops sometimes found themselves in the center of bitter disputes with leaders of other communities, much to the dismay of local apostle and stake president Orson Hyde, who was assigned to arbitrate disputes and settle contentions.

* James, son of Zebedee, apostle, brother of John the Apostle, sometimes called " James the Great "

* James, son of Alphaeus, apostle ( sometimes identified with James the Just )

One church apostle specifically warned that adding additional unauthorized requirements, emphasizing it with excess zeal, or making it a " gospel hobby " is a sign of spiritual immaturity and sometimes apostasy.

Peter Forsskål, sometimes spelled Pehr Forsskål, Peter Forskaol, Petrus Forskål or Pehr Forsskåhl, ( 11 January 1732-11 July 1763 ) was a Swedish explorer, orientalist, naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.

Schweitzer established his reputation further as a New Testament scholar with other theological studies including The Psychiatric Study of Jesus ( 1911 ); and his two studies of the apostle Paul, Paul and his Interpreters, and the more complete The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle ( 1930 ).

The Protestant reformer Martin Luther denied it was the work of an apostle and termed it an " epistle of straw " as compared to some other books in the New Testament, not least because of the conflict he thought it raised with Paul on the doctrine of justification ( see below ).

Some challenged his authority as an apostle and compares the level of difficulty to other cities he has visited who had embraced it, like the Galatians.

This epistle, it has been well said, shows the individuality of the apostle more than any other.

This difference was responsible for the belief that 2 and 3 John were written by some one other than the apostle.

He states that Nicolas led a chaste life, and brought up his children in purity ; that on a certain occasion, having been sharply reproved by the apostles as a jealous husband, he repelled the charge by offering to allow his wife to become the wife of any other person ; and that he was in the habit of repeating a saying which is ascribed to the apostle Matthias also ,— that it is our duty to fight against the flesh and to abuse ( παραχρῆσθαι ) it.

In 1943, the First Presidency discovered apostle Richard R. Lyman was cohabitating with a woman other than his legal wife.

Fragments of four other cycles of romances around the figure of the apostle Thomas survive, but this is the only complete one.

Gary Burge, on the other hand sees confusion on the part of Eusebius and holds the elder John to be different person from the apostle John.

" However, there was one other apostle — Oliver Cowdery — and several other elders of the church, making the formal hierarchy of the church unclear.

There have been other cases where counselors have been ordained to the office of apostle but not set apart as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve ( e. g., Alvin R. Dyer ).

Williams concluded that no visible church was valid until Christ sent a new apostle to restore it ; therefore, he never affiliated with any other church.

Nevertheless the ascription of the source of a Hebrew Gospel to the apostle Matthew was widespread and no Church Father attributes a Hebrew Gospel to anyone other than Matthew.

From the time he became an apostle, Lee's eventual succession to the church presidency was seen as largely inevitable, as he was almost twenty years younger than any other apostle and succession to the presidency traditionally relies on length of service among the Twelve.

The four Gospels were each assigned, directly or indirectly to an apostle, as were certain other New Testament books.

While a disciple is one who learns from a teacher, in other words a student, an apostle is one sent to deliver those teachings or a message such as the Great Commission to others.

) is the name given to the religious romance which purports to contain a record made by one Clement ( whom the narrative identifies as both Pope Clement I, and Domitian's cousin Titus Flavius Clemens ) of discourses involving the apostle Peter, together with an account of the circumstances under which Clement came to be Peter's travelling companion, and of other details of Clement's family history.

In other places the apostle Paul emphatically underscored the importance of diligent work in study and preparation ( I Tim.

Examples of other offices include the twelve apostles in Acts ( an additional apostle was selected to replace Judas Iscariot ) and the appointment of seven deacons, thus establishing the office of the diaconate.

The Decretum Gelasianum associated with Pope Gelasius I, though of later date, follows Jerome in accepting one letter of " John the apostle " and two letters of the " other John the elder ".