Notice that Jesus ordained the apostles. Ordination conveys authority, or power, by the laying on of hands. “Then he called his 12 disciples together, and gave them power and authority over the ...

JESUS CHRIST was crucified on Good Friday after being betrayed by one of his 12 disciples, Judas Iscariot, but did the biblical figure, who has become synonymous with treachery, actually exist?

The room is briefly described in the Book of Luke 22:11-13, when Jesus requested a large, furnished upper room where he and his disciples could eat their Passover meal together ...

“For 200 years the story of Jesus and his twelve disciples has been a very male affair,” the historians’ TV series, Jesus’ Female Disciples: The New Evidence says.

Among them, his 12 disciples had to be male, ... Jesus tells his disciples to pray to their Father in heaven – again employing the ordinary respectful word for “father” in Greek, patēr.

According to the Gospel, Jesus sat down to a final meal with his 12 disciples before being turned over to Roman soldiers and crucified. That last supper was immortalized by Leonardo Da Vinci in ...

To the Romans, Jesus was a troublemaker who had got his just desserts. To the Christians, however, he was a martyr and it was soon clear that the execution had made Judaea even more unstable.