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    The seventy disciples (Greek: ἑβδομήκοντα μαθητές, hebdomikonta mathetes), known in the Eastern Christian traditions as the seventy apostles (Greek: ἑβδομήκοντα...
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    the Twelve Apostles (also known as the Twelve Disciples or simply the Twelve), were the primary disciples of Jesus according to the New Testament. During...
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  • seventy was anciently conferred upon the seventy disciples mentioned in the Gospel of Luke 10:1-2. Multiple individuals holding the office of seventy...
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    of people identified as disciples in the opening of the passage of the Sermon on the Plain. In addition, seventy (or seventy-two, depending on the source...
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  • The Gospel of the Seventy is a lost text from the New Testament apocrypha. The title of the text refers to the number of disciples sent by Jesus to preach...
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  • seventy was anciently conferred upon the seventy disciples mentioned in the Gospel of Luke 10:1-2. Multiple individuals holding the office of seventy...
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    Thaddeus of Edessa, whom Eastern Christian considers as one of the Seventy disciples. In some Latin manuscripts of Matthew 10:3, Thaddeus is called Judas...
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    Agabus (category Seventy disciples)
    Apostles as a prophet. He is traditionally remembered as one of the Seventy Disciples described in Luke 10:1–24. The name Agabus derived from the Aramaic...
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    the 12 disciples having witnessed the crucifixion.[citation needed] The New Testament also makes two references to an unnamed "other disciple" in John...
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    the brother of John the Apostle. James is described as one of the first disciples to join Jesus. The Synoptic Gospels state that James and John were with...
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    in the British Library.[citation needed] The Qur'anic account of the disciples of Jesus does not include their names, numbers, or any detailed accounts...
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    Ananias of Damascus (category Seventy disciples)
    apostle or disciple. Anglican priest and theologian Edward Carus Selwyn recognized Ananias as a prophet as well as one of the seventy disciples and the apostles...
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    "fisher of men", hence the tradition that Jesus called them to be his disciples by saying that he will make them "fishers of men" (Greek: ἁλιεῖς ἀνθρώπων...
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  • introduced as a friend of Philip, from Bethsaida (1:43-44). The first disciples who follow Jesus are portrayed as reaching out immediately to family or...
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    "The First Disciples" (John 1:35–42). In John, the readers are told that it was two disciples of John the Baptist (Andrew and an unnamed disciple) who heard...
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    Barnabas (category Seventy disciples)
    Orthodox tradition holds that Aristobulus of Britannia, one of the Seventy Disciples, was the brother of Barnabas. His Hellenic Jewish parents called him...
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    Silas (category Seventy disciples)
    p. 564. ISBN 0-385-49020-8 – via Internet Archive. The Holy Disciples from the Seventy Acts 18:5 Cross, F. L.; Livingstone, E. A., eds. (2005). The Oxford...
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    Mark the Evangelist (category Seventy disciples)
    Seventy Disciples sent out by Jesus (Luke 10:1), as Hippolytus confirmed. Coptic tradition also holds that Mark the Evangelist hosted the disciples in...
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    Prophets In Islam And Judaism, Brandon M. Wheeler, Disciples of Christ: "Islam identifies the disciples of Jesus as Peter, Philip, Andrew, Matthew, Thomas...
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    include Matthew amongst the disciples. Muslim exegesis preserves the tradition that Matthew and Andrew were the two disciples who went to Ethiopia to preach...
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  • 70 (number) (redirect from Seventy)
    people seventy times seven times. In Luke 10:1–24, Jesus appoints Seventy Disciples and sends them out in pairs to preach the Gospel. Seventy is a priesthood...
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    Onesiphorus (category Seventy disciples)
    According to Orthodox tradition, Saint Onesiphorus was one of the seventy disciples chosen and sent by Jesus to preach. They were chosen some time after...
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  • Sosthenes (category Seventy disciples)
    arbitrary and unsupported". He is traditionally listed among the Seventy Disciples of Luke 10:1.  This article incorporates text from a publication now...
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    needed] Luke also has Jesus during his ministry dispatching disciples, including the seventy disciples, sending them to all the nations and giving them power...
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    Addai of Edessa (category Seventy disciples)
    sometimes Latinized Addeus) or Thaddeus of Edessa was one of the seventy disciples of Jesus. Based on various Eastern Christian traditions, Addai was...
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    Evodius (category Seventy disciples)
    writings, Evodius is sometimes depicted as one of the seventy disciples of Christ (or 72 disciples). Peter's stay in Antioch and role in its church was...
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  • refer to: Disciple (Christianity), a student of Jesus Christ Twelve Apostles of Jesus, sometimes called the Twelve Disciples Seventy disciples in the Gospel...
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    Tychicus (category Seventy disciples)
    calendar of saints is kept on 29 April. A pseudepigraphal list of the seventy disciples traditionally ascribed to Hippolytus of Rome includes both "Tychicus...
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    Apollos (category Seventy disciples)
    the Acts of the Apostles recounts an encounter between Paul and some disciples at Ephesus: And he said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when...
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    in the gospels who was healed by Jesus and later supported him and his disciples in their travels. She is one of the women recorded in the Gospel of Luke...
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