The tradition that this was the disciple Matthew begins with the early Christian bishop Papias of Hierapolis ( about 100 – 140 AD ), who, in a passage with several ambiguous phrases, wrote: " Matthew collected the oracles ( logia — sayings of or about Jesus ) in the Hebrew language ( Hebraïdi dialektōi — perhaps alternatively " Hebrew style ") and each one interpreted ( hērmēneusen — or " translated ") them as best he could.

In Matthew, Joseph was identified as " also a disciple of Jesus ;" in Mark he was identified as " a respected member of the council ( Sanhedrin ) who was also himself looking for the Kingdom of God ;" in Luke he was identified as " a member of the council, good and righteous, who did not consent to their purpose or deed, and who was looking for the Kingdom of God '" and in John he was identified as " a disciple of Jesus.

In Matthew 27: 57 he is not described as a counsellor, but as a rich man and a disciple of Jesus.

Smith was a follower of the white supremacist organization now known as the Creativity Movement, and was a devoted disciple of the group's leader Matthew Hale.

Although Matthew 17 lists the disciple John as being present during the Transfiguration, the Gospel of John has no account of it.

* The Parable of the Prodigal Son ( Luke 15: 11-32 ) is used as a plot device which simultaneously redeems the disciple Matthew and reconciles him to his bitter enemy, Peter.

And the Lord said, “ How can you say, I have fulfilled the law and the prophets, when it is written in the law: ' You shall love your neighbor as yourself ,' and many of your brothers, sons of Abraham, are covered with filth, dying of hunger, and your house is full of many good things, none of which goes out to them ?” And he turned and said to Simon, his disciple, who was sitting by Him, “ Simon, son of Jonah, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for the rich to enter the Kingdom of Heaven .” ( Origen Commentary on Matthew 15. 14 ).

Instead of answering directly He would make a vague comment ( such as instructing them to " consider the lily "), pause, then say " ahh " in a mysterious manner, causing all but Matthew ( Herring ) to " ahh " along with Him, leading the disciple to become frustrated with the evasion (" This isn't an ' ahh ' situation "; " Ahh!

" Alphaeus ( Greek Ἀλφαῖος ) was also the name of the father of the disciple Matthew the evangelist ( Mark 2: 14 ).

Within the Roman Empire, these private individuals and groups which collected taxes in lieu of the bid ( i. e. rent ) they had paid to the state were known as publicani, of whom the best known is the disciple Matthew, a publicanus in the village of Capernaum in the province of Galilee.

Matthew and Luke say it was done by an unnamed disciple.

In fact, his only disciple -- the only person to imitate his style -- was W. S. Graham, who seems to have imitated him without much understanding, and who has since moved on to other methods.

From the early 1830s, Lincoln was a steadfast Whig and professed to friends in 1861 to be, " an old line Whig, a disciple of Henry Clay ".

The Glagolitic alphabet is believed to have been created by Saints Cyril and Methodius, while the Cyrillic alphabet was invented by the Bulgarian scholar Clement of Ohrid, who was their disciple.

His denunciation of the royal dynasty of Israel, and his emphatic insistence on the worship of Yahweh and Yahweh alone, illustrated by the contest between Yahweh and Baal on Mount Carmel, as told in 1 Kings 18, form the keynote to a period which culminated in the accession of Jehu, an event in which Elijah's chosen disciple Elisha was the leading figure.

Samuel, another disciple of Judah I, at the same time brought to the academy at Nehardea a high degree of prosperity ; in fact, it was at the school of Rav that Jewish learning in Babylonia found its permanent home and center.

A disciple by the name Bharadwaja was carrying his clothes.

Yet the title of Father of monasticism is merited as he was the inspiration for the coming of hundreds of men and women into the depths of the desert, who were then loosely organized into small communities, especially by his disciple, Macarius.

According to his disciple Cuthbert, Bede was also doctus in nostris carminibus (" learned in our songs ").

Confucius ' favorite disciple was Yan Hui, most probably one of the most impoverished one of them all.

Polycarp was a disciple of the Apostle John.

In geology Darwin was very much Lyell's disciple, and brought back observations and his own original theorising, including ideas about the formation of atolls, which supported Lyell's uniformitarianism.

When he was building his first tiny cell, as his hagiograph goes, his first disciple and monk was a boar that had been rendered gentle by God.

They argue that the disciple who formed this community was both an historical person and a companion of Jesus Christ.

In 1652, Fox preached for several hours under a walnut tree at Balby, where his disciple Thomas Aldham was instrumental in setting up the first meeting in the Doncaster area.

The most influential figure was theologian John Knox ( 1510 – 1572 ), who had lived in Switzerland and was a disciple of both Calvin and Wishart.

* Sayyid Ahmad Barelvi was a disciple and successor of Shah Waliullah's son and emphasized the ' purification ' of Islam from un-Islamic beliefs and practices.

Walter Sickert, an English artist, was initially a follower of Whistler, and later an important disciple of Degas ; he did not exhibit with the Impressionists.

He was a hearer of Polycarp, who in turn was a disciple of John the Evangelist.

Chandragupta was a disciple of Acharya Bhadrabahu.

His thinking is often described as Hegelian because of his references to dialectical thinking but, although he probably knew Hegel, Clausewitz's dialectic is quite different and there is little reason to consider him a disciple.

, in which the " beloved disciple " claims authorship, is commonly assumed to be an appendix, probably added to allay concerns after the death of the beloved disciple.

Yet Baader is no disciple of Schelling, and he probably gave more than he received.

He had received his training partly in Alexandria, under Ammonius, partly in Athens, as a disciple of Damascius ; and it was probably in one of these two cities that he subsequently took up his abode ; for, with the exception of these cities and Constantinople, it would have been difficult to find a town which possessed the collections of books he needed, and he is unlikely to have gone to Constantinople.

He noted that the film would not interest the casual Radiohead listener, saying: " If you're a disciple of Radiohead you'll probably notch this at around a 9.

The few things known about him can be read in a hagiographic source, the Vita domni Willelmi in fourteen chapters written by his disciple, the Burgundian monk Raoul Glaber in 1031, and revised probably by demand of the later Abbot John of Fécamp during the late 11th century.

It is impossible to determine whom Albert means by Alexander, " a disciple of Xenophanes "; probably the reference is to some Arabian work that went under the name of a Greek philosopher.

Emanuel Swedenborg was probably both his most notable supporter and, later, staunch critic: Swedenborg began as a disciple of Dippel, but eventually dismissed him as a " most vile devil ... who attempted wicked things.

The first record of the concept of the Vicar of Christ is mentioned in the Epistle to the Magnesians of St. Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, a disciple of St. John, probably commanded by Peter, with a pastoral sense, written between the years 88 and 107 AD " your bishop presides in the place of God (...)".

Upon arriving in China, Dogen Kigen first studied under Wuji Lepai, a disciple of Dahui, which is where he probably came into contact with Dahui's Shōbōgenzō.

He was a disciple of Marcion, probably at Rome, but left ( or was expelled from ) the Marcionite society.

The British scholar Richard Bauckham reaches the similar conclusion that the beloved disciple, who also authored the gospel attributed to John, was probably a literally sophisticated member of the ( surprisingly extensive ) high priestly family clan.

Baltz says John is probably the disciple ον ηγαπα ο Ιησους, and Eleazar is the disciple ον εφιλει ο Ιησους in the Gospel.

The development of the hills was probably prompted by the popularity of Vulture Peak in Bihār, the holy mountain connected with the Buddha where his disciple Śāriputra and others are alleged to have attained enlightenment.

* 385-Paulus Orosius, historian, theologian and disciple of St. Augustine, is probably born in Braga.