- A great crowd followed Jesus (Ch3:7-12)
- While the Pharisees and Herodians were planing to destroy Jesus, the people continue to come to Jesus to be healed.
- Can you locate these places in the map? (3:7-8)
- All unclean spirits knows who Jesus is, and submitted His authority.
- Meaning of apostle
- A person sent by another, a messenger, envoy
- Jesus is the Apostle sent by God
- Heb 3:1 Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession
- Joh 20:21 Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”
- There are other apostles other than the twelves:
- Paul and Barnabas (Acts 14:14)
- Matthias (Acts 1:26)
- Silas and Timothy (2 Thes 1:1,2:6)
- Maybe Andronicus and Junia (Rom 16:7)
- Maybe others as well (1 Cor15:7)
- His election of the twelve
- Whom He desire
- Shows the sovereignty of Jesus
- His choice is based of His infinite wisdom
- No man can influent His decision
- Not because they had asked to be called
- No room for protests of inability
- Jesus assumed responsibility
- Call to Himself
- Set them free from any responsibility
- John 15:16 – You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you…
- If there were detects in them, Jesus must deal with them and remedy them
- Yet imposed upon them serious responsibility
- Obedience to His commands, yield to His power (v13 they came to Him)
- confidence in the wisdom of His choice
- Set them free from any responsibility
- His appointment of those whom He elected
- To be with Him
- To know more about Jesus, to have more intimate closeness with Jesus
- Jesus begin to spend more time with the apostles to train them, to prepare them for ministry
- To send them forth to preach and to have authority to cast out demons
- What do you know about these 12 apostles?
- Peter
- James
- John
- Andrew
- disciples of John the baptist (John 1:35)
- brother of Peter (John 1:40)
- from Bethsaida (John 1:44)
- brought Peter to Jesus (John 1:41)
- Wondered how 5 loaves and 2 fishes can feet 5000 (John 6:9)
- Philip
- From Bethsaida (John 1:44)
- Brought Nathanael to Jesus (John 1:45)
- Jesus tested Philip on where to buy bread to feet 5000 (John 6:5)
- Brought Gentiles to Jesus (John 12:21)
- Asked Jesus to show them the Father (John 14:8)
- Philip the apostle and Philip the deacon are two persons (Acts 6:5)
- Bartholomew (Nathaniel)
- Was introduced to Jesus by Philip (John 1:45)
- Doubted anything good can come out of Nazareth, after conversation with Jesus, he proclaimed Jesus as Son of God and King of Israel (John 1:45-51)
- Matthew
- A levi
- A tax collector
- Writer of Matthew
- Thomas
- aka Didymus (Twin) (John 11:16)
- He said to Jesus “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”(John14:5)
- Doubted the resurrection of Jesus (John 20:24-25)
- later proclaimed Jesus “My Lord and my God” (John 20:28)
- was with the other 6 apostels when Jesus appeal to them by the sea of Galilee (John 21:2)
- James the son of Alphaues
- May be the brother of Matthew (Mark 2:14)
- Thaddaeus (Jude)
- aka Judas (John 14:22)
- son of James (Luke 6:16, Acts 1:13)
- asked Jesus “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?”
- Simon the Cananaean
- was member of the Zealot (Luke 6:15)
- Judas Iscariot
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