Portal:Twelve Apostles

Class

sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category, Wikidata item

As described by the New Testament of the Bible, the twelve Apostles (or twelve disciples or simply Apostles) were the primary followers of Jesus of Nazareth. Other early prominent Christians, most notably Paul of Tarsus, were also called Apostles, but were not included among the twelve.

Individual apostles

Andrew
Bartholomew
James the Greater
James the Less (sometimes considered to be the same person as James the Just)
John
Judas Iscariot, later replaced by Matthias
Judas Thaddeus
Matthew
Philip
Simon Peter
Simon the Zealot
Thomas

Works by the Apostles

The Apostolic Constitutions (4th century) purports to have been written by the Twelve Apostles.
A Christian tradition holds that the Apostles' Creed (5th-7th century) was written jointly by the Twelve Apostles, with each apostle contributing one of the creed's twelve articles.

Works about the Apostles

Biblical texts

Gospel of Matthew, attributed to Matthew the Evangelist (1st century).
Gospel of Mark, attributed to Mark the Evangelist (1st century).
Gospel of Luke, attributed to Luke the Evangelist (1st century).
Gospel of John, attributed to John the Evangelist (1st century).
Acts of the Apostles, attributed to Luke the Evangelist (1st century).

Other ancient texts

On the Twelve Apostles by Hippolytus (3rd century).

Modern works

The Mythological Acts of the Apostles (start transcription) (1904)

Reference texts

"Apostle," in Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
“Apostle”, in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York, 1920
"Apostle," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
"Apostles," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
"Apostle," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Apostles," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)