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  2. Apostles in the New Testament - Wikipedia

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    Pope Benedict XVI, The Apostles. Full title is The Origins of the Church – The Apostles and Their Co-Workers. published 2007, in the US: ISBN 978-1-59276-405-1; different edition published in the UK under the title: Christ and His Church – Seeing the face of Jesus in the Church of the Apostles, ISBN 978-1-86082-441-8. Carson, D.A.

  3. Great Tribulation - Wikipedia

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    Futurism. In the futurist view of Christian eschatology, the Great Tribulation is a relatively short period of time where everyone will experience worldwide hardships, persecution, disasters, famine, war, pain, and suffering, which will affect all of creation, and precede judgment of all when the Second Coming takes place.

  4. Seventy disciples - Wikipedia

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    Erastus, Olympus, Rhodion, Sosipater, Quartus and Tertius. Stachys, Amplias, Urban. Patrobulus, Hermas, Linus, Caius, Philologus. Sosthenes, Apollo, Cephas, Tychicus, Epaphroditus, Cæsar and Onesiphorus. The feast day commemorating the seventy is known as the " Synaxis of the Seventy Disciples" in Eastern Orthodoxy, and is celebrated on ...

  5. Miraculous catch of fish - Wikipedia

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    The sea is the world; the fish are the men living in the world. The bark is the Church; the helmsman is Peter (and his successors). He steers the bark, and with the help of his companions (the Apostles, and after them the Bishops), casts his net by preaching the doctrine of Christ, and by holy Baptism receives into the Church those who will ...

  6. Commissioning of the Twelve Apostles - Wikipedia

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    Vocation of the Apostles, a fresco in the Sistine Chapel by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1481-82. The commissioning of the Twelve Apostles is an episode in the ministry of Jesus that appears in all three Synoptic Gospels: Matthew 10:1–4, Mark 3:13–19 and Luke 6:12–16. It relates the initial selection of the Twelve Apostles among the disciples of ...

  7. Futurism (Christianity) - Wikipedia

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    Christianity portal. v. t. e. Diagram by Henry Dunant aiming to explain Revelation and Daniel as prophecies of future events. Futurism is a Christian eschatological view that interprets portions of the Book of Revelation, the Book of Ezekiel, and the Book of Daniel as future events in a literal, physical, apocalyptic, and global context. [1]

  8. Farewell Discourse - Wikipedia

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    John 16:33. In the final part of the discourse (John 17:1-26) Jesus prays for his followers. This is the longest prayer of Jesus in any of the gospels, and is known as the Farewell Prayer or the High Priestly Prayer. [6][7] The key themes of the prayer are the glorification of the Father and petitions for the unity of the disciples through love ...

  9. Calling of the disciples - Wikipedia

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    The calling of the disciples is a key episode in the life of Jesus in the New Testament. [2][3] It appears in Matthew 4:18–22, Mark 1:16-20 and Luke 5:1–11 on the Sea of Galilee. John 1:35–51 reports the first encounter with two of the disciples a little earlier in the presence of John the Baptist. Particularly in the Gospel of Mark, the ...