Didn't they try to add more disciples to replace the dead ones?

What happened to Lazurus (the one Jesus resurrected) after Christ was crucified? Did the Pharisees kill him?

Could you provide references for this? I have heard people say this many times but I’ve never known what the claim is based on. What are the sources of the disciples dying as martyrs?

I have a question. We are always told that early Christians didn’t have bibles because paper and ink was too expensive. Yet John, while exiled to a penal colony got enough of each to write the book of Revelation. Plus we have over 10,000 early manuscripts. Paul also said to make copies of his writings and send them out to all the churches.

@@joshthielbar1if you are talking about apostles, no. By that time, there would be no one left chosen and taught by Jesus. And unlike today, people back then understood what an apostle was.

From point of view of eastern hemisphere yes it is western

​@@vsharmishtha16 the Greenwich Meridian goes through England and Western Africa, going north and south. In terms of map perspective, only the parts of Asia east of Judea would consider it "western", and that term would definitely mean something completely different for that time than what is being discussed here.

Christianity was plagerized from Judaism which was plagerized from zoroastrianism and islam was plagiarized from christianity.

​@@vsharmishtha16just because you live more east than the place where Christianity originated doesn't make it a western religion, or an eastern religion for that matter.... It is a worldwide religion and there's nothing you can do to change that fact....

@@sandeeppallapu just because you say 'its a worldwide religion and nothing anyone can do to stop' does not mean it is true. It did not become worldwide out of love ..there were crusaders who plundered and massacred whover stood in way. Modern world whether its christian or not are beginning to see the reality. And nothing wrong in calling east or west.

*Son of God

@@joelflack1469 same thing

@@tudor7746 The son of someone by definition cannot be the someone that they are a son of.

@@joelflack1469 for us, people, yes. But at the godly level, Jesus was the son of the Father, while still being God together with His Father. They are one God in three persons. The Father is in heaven, the Son was on the Earth.

Jesus and God are separate. Jesus is our human messiah , the second adam who never sinned and gave his perfect life for us but he never claimed to be God.. He is the mediator for us to God the Father. The trinity is a man made doctrine that evolved over time that has to be read into scripture instead of from scripture.

That'll be in a few Googleplex years until the Universe Dies, at least that's what i understood.

@@Ralampos It may not be as far away as you think.

Imagine Jesus telling the true story about humanity like what really happened and all of us with our families listening. Sheesh

It's said that that the messiah's coming is suspended until all of Israel believes so it's still pretty far

Maybe You want be interested in anything but bowng down to the king Of Kings and LORD Of LORDS. Holly wood and the west in general keeps us thinking Of "heaven" is just like it is now here on earth. On the other hand if knowing the story Of someones life is that important im sure You Will get the chance.😊

Was any of them given a chance to escape death by recanting?

True

Because there is no proof of any of this. There has always been storytelling. It's a story of control that man made. Is there a God, maybe, is God written in a book...NO. No story in any Bible has been proven. No writer of a book of the bible had a first-hand view of any story. It a great big telephone game.

they weren’t defending a lie until they died. no one would do so. But a BELIEF that u BELIEVE in however is much more likely to be defended to extremity.

No one said they died for preaching what they thought was a lie. They believed what they were saying. The problem is what they thought was true is false. And do you honestly think a God killing himself as a sacrifice to himself, so he can save a few of us from what he will do to everyone else, is love?!!

Boiled in oil. Still amazing. Even more so due to the nature of the method. Emerged unscathed and rather than repent, they had him exiled.

He's the disciple whom Jesus loved. It's said he would not die until he returns which was fulfilled when the temple was destroyed and the church could reign.

@@MultiSpeedMetal Fulfilled in the war of 70AD. Also showing all gospels had to be written before that time. God is good.

Some theories that John until now is still alive he's waiting for the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ

@@fherndomingo12 There is some confusion between this and the supposed Cartaphilus “wandering man” figure whose name means “dearly loved”. He is claimed to either be the one who struck our Lord on the cheek and spit on him or John or someone else entirely. There are various legends of monks and clergy encountering this man like in the case of an Armenian archbishop claiming to encounter him in Armenia and another Byzantine monk who encountered an Ethiopian claiming to be this man.

Most persecuted? You never heard of the jewish people? Jeezus..... pun intended.

Interesting....When the Disciples are first shown, they are all Black men. Yet, when discussing what Happened to them....they are all shown as White men... Why!?

amen.praise Jesus

HALLELUJAH THANK YOU JESUS 🙌🏾🙏🏾🙌🏾

Amen

St Thomas went to the South of India, a place called Kerala. That's why the Christian population is relatively higher in South India compared to the other parts of India.

@@jen18822he went into taxila northwest India too

​@@jen18822But the BJp government bullied the Vatican to deny Thomas ever went to India. The Catholic church posted this in their official website

And enslaved u guys...from sons of pandyas and cholas to lgbtq+

He was

You sound like a Muslim now. Behave.

It's like he was shown a movie and then tried to describe it afterwards.

so he was a prophet

@@fu_games he was appointed as apostle by the Lord so no need to add other titles.

People still think the gospels are eyewitness accounts? Wow. We live in such an uneducated society.

What's filleting?

@@edmundtrummer3182 like a fish fillet

@@Dandymancan oh fuck

@@edmundtrummer3182I think it’s like pulling the skin off kind of thing not nice

Skinned alive😮🕊️🙏😢

APOSTLES not DISCIPLES

A part from Judas

@@darvi5762nope i believe Jesus used Judas as he wanted to die on the cross for us, which shows how integral Judas' betrayal is to Christianity as a whole

​@@iztjx26Judas is responsible for his sin, and not having repented, he's gone to hell. Jesus has said it too, it would have been better for him if he had never been born

"Anyone who loses his life for my sake will gain it."

Is not biblical that we go to heave after death. Including the disciples. The Bible only mentions a few people that actually went to heaven.

With the three Marys

And at critical time the all forsake hin

Judas sold him out cause he knew Jesus was a fake. He didn’t want to go along with it anymore So they took care of him and wrote that he offed himself because he felt so bad for betraying Jesus. If Judas had a book, his recollection of events would be very different to what the Bible has in it.

​@Conics22 many Christians had encounters with Jesus and all of them describe him in the same way. See Mar Mari Emmanuel, he was taken to the afterlife

@@Artem_Myronko Many people described being abducted by aliens and being probed in the rear end. Doesn’t mean it’s true. Many people believe that their cult leader is the next coming messiah. Many people describe being able to talk to god directly. Many people swore to have seen Elvis after he passed. Many people believed that the earth was flat and in the center of the universe back in the day.

Thats exactly true. That's why preaching that salvation is free is absolutely false. It's free in the sense you can't buy it or earn it but it most certainly costs you something. Whether your physical life, family including a spouse, or literal monet. The cost seems steep at times but the rewards far exceed them. God is sooooooo good.

Come home to the One True, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.

@shaunpoland5656 thats a cult. There is no truth there. All lies. The true church is not catholic

​@@shaunpoland5656The Orthodox Church ❤

@@metallica990z It’s the same thing my brother. We are the same church of Christ, both Catholic. You are just schismatics. You guys even call yourselves Catholic. I hope we reunite one day.

🤯 That’s wild imagery.

That's an excellent observation! I knew the history of it but never put it together!! He KNEW death had No hold on him! “Unless I shall see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into His side, I will not believe.” And he did!!

No he laughed at the irony

Well, as you're quite aware, Jesus said that they would be raised on the last day... So they all had sleep for a while until he could prepare a place for them as he had said before... And by preparing a place he meant getting rid of Satan and the demons out of heaven and throwing them out...

​@flamingpieherman9822 You're theology is in error, May God Bless you and all who seek

Did the other disciples not attend the crucifiction on purpose?

The other disciples were nowhere to be found at the cross. I'm guessing it off fear. But they all, except for Judas, got back together afterward, once Christ was resurrected.

That's a great observation. He always referrred to himself as the one whom Jesus loved.

No my friend. We have no historical evidence to say John of Patmos was Jesus's John. If you research the book, you find the only evidence of it being from John, (who was already killed) is revelation saying trust me bro. So trash it

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There's a difference between Church traditions and the teachings of Scriptures. For example Peter never visited Rome, that's lies from the Church of Rome.

@@columkennlies? There is evidence as early as the 2nd century that says Peter was in Rome.

@joshuajohnson7183 No there isn't. You have been mislead. There is only the story issued retrospectively by the Church of Rome which they used to invent some connection with Peter. The statue of Peter in the Vatican is older than Peter himself and is a statue of one of the pagan gods of the Roman Empire. The Roman Catholic Institution was always fraudulent, a political institution disguised as Christian. There is no evidence Peter left Israel

@@columkenn we’ll have to agree to disagree on this one. Blessings!

​@joshuajohnson7183 There is no agree or disagree. Only the facts and misunderstandings or being deliberately mislead by the Church of Rome. You have no evidence or ever have seen any evidence detailing Peter departing Israel and arriving in Rome because there is no evidence it ever happened and it almost certainly never happened. Of course if you have discovered evidence that nobody ever had before, that Peter was in Rome then you can tell us about it.

They would make one of the disciples 🏳️‍🌈

The Chosen season 7 perhaps?

Nah don’t

Netflix most likely willingly portray them in a different tbh.

​@@koketsok7391 And rainbow 🌈

Mark and Luke also record such statements... and in each gospel, the next scene is always the transfiguration of Jesus. John 1:4 and 2 Peter 1:16-18 spell this out more clearly.

I wanted to add this, but you already did. 😊

Then there is me who, when I deep fry something and the oil sprinkles a minute portion onto my hand, I scream like a banshee. Praise be to God for these disciples because the things they went through, they went through them by the grace, strength and mercies of God

Because Yehovah was with them . As they were not Christians ..

⁠@@JaberYesulike a bansheee you say …I’m rolling 😭😭 same , same 😭

After that John continued. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and i heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet saying. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last and what thou seest, write in a book and.... the revelations were given to him.

You mean they tried to kill him but they were unsuccessful then he was exiled to Patmos

That's because John was promised to be immortal until the time Jesus comes back to earth. So as far as I know he is still in this world and you will not recognize him if you cross him.

​@@dennisrodriguez3689Not true.

@@senatorjosephmccarthy2720 did you at least read the Bible?

​@@dennisrodriguez3689 the bible is corrupted

You are right Saint John is not dead

John died in Ephesus of old age. He instructed his disciples to dig a grave for him and told him that it has been revealed to him he would die in 3 days. One the third day he said goodbye to his disciples and laid down in his grave and gave up his soul. The Orthodox Church has the knowledge of what happened to all the Saints and even the entire life of Christ's mother, Mary. It is held in our Tradition and passed down. It's too bad that so many people just don't know these things because they only look to the Bible (which btw was created by the members of the Orthodox Church and agreed upon in 325 at the Council of Nicea).

@@Ljcsoghmomas1227what holy books say these things? Genuinely curious. Thank you.

@@SusieQZee The lives of the Saints are recorded on what is called the Synaxaristes of the Orthodox Church. There is a volume for each month of the year and you can look up Saint's lives by the day of their death. St. John is celebrated on September 26th. My kids also have a book written for children about his life. I'm glad you asked because it made me go read the section on him and realize that he actually reposed in Ephesus not Patmos. Also, like Mary the Mother of God, St. John has no grave because after his death his body ascended into Heaven to be with Christ. But unlike Elijah and Enoch, he died first, then his body was taken up. This maybe why people think he is still wandering around but that is not a teaching of the Early Church (the Orthodox Church) and is still not to this day. It was made up somewhere along the way. God bless.

The Apostle John didn’t write the Gospel of John and the book of Revelation. They were written by John-Mark, the rich young ruler, who witnessed the trial and went to the cross. He was a pupil of Nicodemus and authored the Gospel of Mark as well. ”And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and went with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest.“ ‭‭John‬ ‭18‬:‭15‬ ‭NKJV‬ The disciple known to the high Priest was John Mark, the one whom Jesus loved….. note that disciple went into the court yard with Jesus! ……… Peter asked the question because he felt that Jesus should rebuke the other disciple as well since he also sort of betrayed Jesus Read those passages carefully and God will open your eyes and give you understanding 😀✝️

If the seed is the word of God and the seed was planted in Jerusalem; then what eventually grew in Jerusalem in all the spots Jesus was? The Catholic Church. A tree is known by its fruits. A catholic church is at most or all of the countries where the Apostles were martyred. The word Bible is Latin and it means book. Sancta Bible. So yes go to Rome. The Catholic Church also owns remnants of the Holy Cross of Jesus, Crown of Thorns, Shroud of Turin, Veil of Veronica, La Santa Anello which is the wedding ring of Mary, the holy house of Loreto which is Mary and Joseph's house in Jerusalem, Joseph's tunic. What validation does your church have that it is the true Christian religion amongst all the other Christian Denominations claiming to be the truth? Your church will eventually die off and that's the sad honest truth. The scripture: "and the gates of Hades will not prevail" is talking about the Catholic Church and not your church. We have survived every persecution there is a still standing 2,000 years later. You might know scripture but you don't know authority. You search the scriptures because you think you have salvation through them-Jesus. You grabbing a Protestant Bible that's missing 6 books and altered by Martin Luther and claiming to be Christian is like me buying a Navy Seal training book from a yard sale and claim to be a real Navy Seal because I read the whole thing and memorized it but I don't acknowledge the US government as the authority of the US Navyseal training manual. Finally your church has no known miracles like the Catholic Church. The Eucharistic Miracles, the many apparitions of Mary: Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of Las Lajas,Our Lady of Akita. Look it all up. Science studied by religious and secular scholars. Your church has absolutely nothing compared to that so leave Rome out of it because you don't know what you're talking about. Who introduced western medicine? Catholic Church. Who introduced Hospitals? Catholic Church. Who leads the world in sheltering the poor, feeding the poor? Catholic Church. Try to measure your church compared to that. Gloria tibi Domine.

....is gain

Maybe it didn’t touch him like the fire in Daniel?

@@Rileyed He was scared for life ... he had injuries even of being beaten. His body had scars as a testimony of his stand for the Messiah, and the good news.

@@madikaldoktor9986 I almost think you were there! Where do you find this information? How he felt inside and what his injuries were after? Did you know in Daniel they were put into a furnace and came out unscathed ? God can protect us. I’ve never heard this is all. That John was head to toe burnt skin in his last days. god bless brother. Thanks for sharing

@@madikaldoktor9986 you made me research it!!! Every person that wrote on it said he was untouched. Zero injuries. Said he preached while they dipped him in oil. He was also forced to drink poison and unharmed. But it’s history. People argue over stuff they know they cannot know. But this is what the “witnesses” wrote down in their books.

@@Rileyed It's in the Christians records on how the Apostles died ... These people were whipped and beaten up!!! One was even flayed alive ... Paul too faced this ... and this was mentioned in the gospel. They lit believers on fire ... Roman candles along their streets.

Only two apostles founded churches of the pentarchy. Peter founded Churches Antioch and Rome. Bartholomew founded the church of Constantinople. Jerusalem is pre-conregation. Alexandria wasn't founded by a disciple. It was founded by Mark.

According to Church tradition, Mark founded the episcopal see of Alexandria, which was one of the five most important sees of early Christianity. There's always a critic.

Pentarchy, after the Greek for “five leaders,” refers to the five patriarchates in the early church. Originally, these patriarchates were located in important Roman cities that were significant for Christians for several reasons. First, the Christian community in each city was founded by one of the Twelve Apostles.

"Alexandria wasn't founded by a disciple. It was founded by Mark." Okay but where did I say the 5 See's were founded by disciples? And WHO IS MARK? According to tradition, the author, Mark is not an apostle himself. Not one of the original disciples, but rather the follower of one of them.

Alright then; Peter founded the churches in Rome & Antioch. Constantinople was founded by Andrew. In Alexandria was founded by Mark. The first elected Bishop the Church of Jerusalem was James the Brother of Christ (+62) who shouldered the pastoral care of the whole Christian community. That's 4 apostles, *NOT 2,* for *5 (five)* patriarchates, which altogether formed a Pentarchy

Real soldiers of christ. Nothing like the private jet owning prosperity teachers of today

The bible authors are anonymous you don't know who wrote it and when it's just one big guessing game.

He was not an apostle.

He wasn't an apostle but if he hadn't have been slain by a Jezebel and an Ahab, he certainly would have met the requirements to be considered for the role.

I think you are talking about a different john. He means john, brother of James. You mean john the baptist, jesus' his cousin

@@dennisrodriguez3689Mary magdelene was the 13th disciple

You are talking about a different John.

Correct, if Jesus was fake they wouldn't be prepared to die a martyr.

@@lillian9221Incorrect. Branch Davidians. Hale bop…. People die for lies all throughout history. Stop listening to mythological propaganda.

As a Christian, I also want some type of historical confirmation of this.

He said we know, he didn’t say believe

There are none. Only traditions

100% ! Orthodox Church.

Well, kind of, there were still creeds floating around, and Paul’s letters weren’t t too far behind. Also it can be argued that Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were living parts of the Bible, before they had written down their biographies of Jesus life.

In reflecting on the early days of the church, it's fascinating to consider how the absence of a compiled Bible parallels the Protestant narrative of sola scriptura. Back then, the early church fathers communicated through letters and teachings, living out and transmitting Jesus' teachings orally. This underscores the significance of sola scriptura, emphasizing the Bible as the ultimate authority for faith and practice, especially given the reliance on oral tradition before the scriptures were compiled. As Jesus said, “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I’ve commanded you, and surely I’m with you always, to the very end of the age.”

I'm not sure if I should be offended or not by this statement. Why did you write this comment?

@@dahliaherrod4301 there is nothing to be offended by. It is historical accurate. As a example the acts of the apostles is documentation of the apostles and the early works of the church. The apostles couldn’t preach from the New Testament because they didn’t finish writing it.

The Apostles were Hebrews, /JEWISH .. NOT CATHOLICS !!!!!

@@toenailtom654 most of them were Jewish by race, Catholicism isn’t a race. The Catholic Church was founded upon St Peter (St. Matthew 16:17-19, St John 21:15-18) by your logic the apostles denied the death burial, resurrection of Christ and Christ as GOD

Catholics mean universal. Which is why their teaching was suppose to be: One teaching, One baptism, One body. If you go to Europe any Sunday...the liturgy, teachings and everything is the Same than US or South America. We are one, united...Catholics; universal because everything is One.

@@jmardel1522 Which DOES NOT ALLOW, the Spirit of the Jesus to visit the pulpit. Your message comes from other men, telling you, what to read.

@@Alix_Lloyd Jewish is not a RACE. ETHNICITY but not a different race

Text in the Bible?

The James that is mentioned in Acts 12 was the son of Zebedee and the brother of John, and so was part of the 12. The half-brother of Jesus (James the just) was believed to have been thrown down from the Jerusalem temple and beaten to death. Although he was not one of the 12, he was still very foundational to the early church (Acts 2, 15; 1 Corinthians 15; Galatians 1&2), even writing one of the earliest epistles (the epistle of James) as a shepherd to one of the first churches ever (the Jerusalem Church).

James the apostle became the bishop of Jerusalem and Jesus never had a brother, he is the last line of David, 14 generations read Jesus' genealogy in MAT 1. Jesus did not have any competition for the Kingship of the New Davidic Kingdom, he is the last king, no more successor.

@alfray1072 Jesus certainly had brothers, and they are mentioned in Mark 6 and in Acts 2, and epistles of two of them (James and Jude) are in the New Testament canon. However, Jesus retains the right to rule from the house of David, since he was the first born to Mary, and also had Joseph as his legal father. Moreover, he is the Son of God, and so not only has the right to rule over the house of Jacob/Israel, but over all created things (Colossians 1:15 - 20).

@@joshuaoputteh1876 The Davidic lineage ends in Jesus, 14th generation, no brothers/sisters mentioned, if there is, they would have succeeded it or inherited it as king but did not bec the New Davidic Kingdom is the church and the keys was given to Peter/Cephas establishing his office as the gatekeeper/prime minister/shepherd of the church. 2ND, Joseph was a relative of Mary, if he had a son with her, then that would compete with Jesus 3RD, Mary was entrusted to John when Jesus was dying, not w/a brother or sister. 4TH Brother is a term used broadly in Aramaic/Hebrew language

Jesus was referring to Himself, not Peter. In the Old Testament, God is repeatedly called the rock, Jesus is the solid rock that the church is built on.

@@georgesaliba8876except Jesus literally changes Peter’s name at that moment. From Simon to Peter, Petros, quite literally meaning “boulder.” Furthermore, there would literally be zero reason for Jesus to say that if He truly were building the Church on God, because what is the significance of the scene in Matthew 16 for Him to say that?

@@zunir0a Jesus literally meant Himself, just like when He says that He is the way, the truth, and the life. There were temples named the way, the truth and the life, and the temple gate named "life" was the holiest one. Not to mention, when Jesus said in: John 2:19 Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” What Jesus meant by "this," was Himself. Furthermore, it states in: Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He. Then it states in: 1 Corinthians 10:4 "and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ." It is repeatedly stated throughout the Old Testament, that the only Rock is God Jesus is the rock, not Peter.

@@georgesaliba8876 Ok but why didn’t He just say that He was the rock? Why did He make it cryptic? Any other place where He’s the focus, He’ll say “I am the…” and yet He doesn’t do that for Matthew 16. Plus, Peter was unanimously understood as leader of the early Church.

Not only Peter, but all of His disciples, which built on Christ Himself... Read book of Revelation and apostle Paul's letters : Revelation 21:14 (KJV) And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 1 Corinthians 3:10-11 (KJV) According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I HAVE LAID THE FOUNDATION, AND ANOTHER BUILDETH THEREON. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. FOR OTHER FOUNDATION CAN NO MAN LAY THAN THAT IS LAID, WHICH IS JESUS CHRIST. Ephesians 2:20-22 (KJV) And ARE BUILT UPON THE FOUNDATION OF THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS, JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF BEING THE CHIEF CORNER STONE; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God THROUGH THE SPIRIT.

Isn’t he the one that got lost he walked towards God and no one ever saw him again

John 3: 13.

The Apostle Philllip was crucified in the city of Hieropolis in Phrygia. The other Phillip was one of the 7 deacons appointed to look after the day to day needs of the believers in Jerusalem

not fairy-tails, history. You however, probably believe that we are the byproduct of cosmic space sludge, which is probably one of the dumbest fairy-tails i think Ive ever heard.

Na bro, we become Christian’s because of saint Thomas ❤❤❤

@@sanjuaugustine716 Bro nobody makes me become anything. Your crazy!

If you know the son of man you would know it is the ultimate truth

@@51waystosayiloveyou79 If I can't shake a mans hand. I can't be friends with them, simple truth. Not complicated lies!