Tag: Twelve-Apostles

Scripture gives two accounts of Judas’s death and does not reconcile them. What each text says, why the difference is real, and how the twelfth seat was filled.

His title may not mean what the sermons say. What Cananaean meant, when the Zealot party actually formed, and whether Simon had reason to want Matthew dead.

One recorded question, two names, and a famous forged correspondence. Who Thaddaeus was, why he probably did not write Jude, and what the Abgar legend hides.

Four lists, four mentions, no recorded words. Who James son of Alphaeus was, why he is confused with two other men named James, and what that confusion costs.

Tax farming made extortion structural rather than incidental. How Matthew made his money, why that made him a traitor, and where the synagogue-ban claim rests.

The nickname is modern and the early church read him the opposite way. What Scripture says, when he got shrunk, and the evidence for the India mission.

The Synoptics name Bartholomew and never Nathanael. John does the reverse. Why the two are traditionally identified, and why that remains an inference.

Two men named Philip in the New Testament, and the early church mixed them up. What Scripture records, and why most Philip traditions belong to the other one.

The one apostle the earliest tradition says died of old age. What Scripture records about John, the Patmos exile, and the honest state of the authorship debate.

James son of Zebedee is the only apostle whose death Scripture records. What Acts 12 says, why it can be dated, and where the Spain tradition comes from.