ACTS OF THE APOSTLES FULFILLING THE GREAT COMMISSION

THE APOSTLES SIMON PETER & ANDREW JAMES & JOHN (SONS OF ZEBEDEE) MATTHEW THOMAS JAMES (SON OF ALPHAEUS) PHILLIP BARTHOLOMEW JUDE THADDAEUS SIMON THE CANAANITE JUDAS

NEW TESTAMENT APOSTLES AND DISCIPLES SAUL OF TARSUS (PAUL) & THE SAINTS LUKE BARNABAS TIMOTHY JOHN MARK SILAS

SIMON PETER WROTE I & II PETER & “GOSPEL OF PETER” ? HE AND PAUL FOUNDED OF THE CHURCH AT ROME DIED ABOUT TIME OF PAUL AD 67 OR 68 AT HIS REQUEST, CRUCIFIED UPSIDE DOWN CORNERSTORE OF CATHOLIC CHURCH

JAMES, SON OF ZEBEDEE WROTE “BOOK OF JAMES” ELDEST BROTHER OF JOHN 1 ST APOSTLE MARTYRED BEHEADED BY HEROD AGRIPPA 1 ST SHORTLY BEFORE PASSOVER, IN AD 44 OR ABOUT 11 YEARS AFTER THE DEATH OF CHRIST

JOHN DISCIPLE OF JOHN THE BAPTIST JESUS’S HALF COUSIN WROTE GOSPEL OF “JOHN, 1 ST, 2 ND, 3 RD JOHN & REVELATION” PILLAR OF THE CHURCH (GAL 2:9) ONLY APOSTLE KNOWN TO DIE PEACEFULLY – BELIEVED TO BE BETWEEN 89 – 120 AD IN TURKEY AS BISHOP OF EDESSA

ANDREW CRUCIFIED UPSIDE DOWN ON X-SHAPED CROSS (TO PROLONG SUFFERING) FOR COVERTING A ROMAN PROCONSUL’S FAMILY TO CHRISTIANITY

ANDREW BEGAN MISSIONARY ACTIVITY ON SOUTH SHORES OF BLACK SEA FOUNDED CHURCH AT BYZANTIUM HEALED SICK PRAYERS DESTROYED PAGAN TEMPLES NO ACCURATE DEATH DATE KNOWN CRUCIFIED ON X-SHAPED CROSS AT PATRAS, GREECE

ST. ANDREW THE X-SHAPED CROSS HAS BECOME KNOWN AS THE ST. ANDREW’S CROSS IT WAS THE SYMBOL USED FOR THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA TO EXPRESS THEIR RIGHTEOUS CAUSE

PHILIP MINISTRY MOSTLY UNKNOWN UNNKNOWN WHEN OR HOW HE DIED PREACHED IN PHRYGIA, AND DIED AT HIERAPOLIS. WROTE “ACTS OF PHILIP” FEAST OF PHILIP CELEBRATED BY CATHOLIC CHURCH MAY 1 ST

BARTHOLOMEW (NATHANIEL) WHILE PREACHING IN ARMENIA, FLAYED TO DEATH BY A WHIP A MISSIONARY TO ASIA. TRADITION SAYS BARTHOLOMEW WENT ON A MISSIONARY JOURNEY TO INDIA TRADITION SAYS HE SERVED AS A MISSIONARY IN ETHIOPIA, MESOPOTAMIA, PARTTHIA & LYCAONIA

MATTHEW 5 TH APOSTLE CALLED TAX COLLECTOR WROTE “GOSPEL OF MATTHEW” AT LEAST TWENTY YEARS AFTER THE DEATH OF CHRIST?? WROTE “GOSPEL BIRTH OF MARY” STAYED FOR FIFTEEN YEARS AT JERUSALEM LATER, A MISSIONARY TO THE PERSIANS, PARTHIANS AND MEDES MARTYRED IN ETHIOPIA BY THE SWORD

THOMAS PREACHED IN PARTHIA OR PERSIA WROTE “GOSPEL OF THOMAS” & “GOSPEL OF INFANCY OF CHRIST” MARTYRED IN INDIA BY A SPEAR MARTYRDOM CELEBRATED BY LATIN CHURCH ON DEC. 21 ST

JAMES, SON OF ALPHAEUS BROTHER OF JUDE (MAYBE MATTHEW TOO) MADE MISSIONARY JOURNEYS THROUGHOUT JUDEA, EDESSA, GAZA, AND ELEUTHEROPOLIS ST JAMES FINISHED HIS APOSTOLIC WORK IN THE EGYPTIAN CITY OF OSTRACHINA, WHERE HE WAS CRUCIFIED BY THE PAGANS

SIMON THE CANAANITE ONE OF THE MOST OBSCURE AMONG THE APOSTLES. LITTLE IS RECORDED OF HIM ASIDE FROM HIS NAME BELIEVED BY SOME TO BE THE SIMEON OF JERUSALEM WHO BECAME THE SECOND BISHOP OF JERUSALEM

JUDE THADDEUS ACCORDING TO TRADITION, JUDE TAUGHT IN ARMENIA, SYRIA AND PERSIA WHERE HE WAS MARTYRED WROTE “GOSPEL OF JUDAS” KILLED WITH ARROWS WHE HE REFUSED TO DENY HIS FAITH TRADITION TELLS US HE WAS BURIED IN KARA KALISA IN WHAT IS NOW IRAN PATRON SAINT OF “DESPERATE CASES AND LOST CAUSES”

JUDAS ISCARIOT BETRAYED JESUS SHORTLY AFTER THE DEATH OF CHRIST, JUDAS KILLED HIMSELF. ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE HE HANGED HIMSELF, (MATTHEW 27:5) AT ACELDAMA, ON THE SOUTHERN SLOPE OF THE VALLEY OF HINNOM, NEAR JERUSALEM, AND IN THE ACT HE FELL DOWN A PRECIPICE AND WAS DASHED INTO PIECES

PAUL (SAUL OF TARSUS) APOSTLE CALLED TO TAKE MESSAGE OF SALVATION TO THE GENTILES FOUNDER OF CHRISTIANITY 4 MISSIONARY JOURNEYS WROTE “ROMANS, I & II COR, GALATIANS, EPHESIANS, PHILLIPIANS, I & II THES, I & II TIMOTHY, TITUS & PHILEMON” WROTE “EPISTLE OF PAUL TO SENECA & EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE LAODICEANS“ BEHEADED IN ROME

1 ST MISSIONARY JOURNEY AD (Acts 13:1 to 15:35)

MADE WITH BARNABAS AND JOHN MARK (BARNABAS’ NEPHEW) WHO DESERTED AT PAMPHYLIA SHORTEST OF 4 JOURNEYS BARNABAS WAS THE MISSIONARY LEADER ON CYPRUS, ROMAN PROCONSUL CONVERTED BY SAUL AFTER REBUKING EVIL SORCERER AFTERWARDS, SAUL BECAME PAUL AND LEADER OF THE MISSIONARY JOURNEY

2 ND MISSIONARY JOURNEY AD (Acts 15:36 to 18:22)

BARNABAS PARTS COMPANY WITH PAUL OVER DISAGREEMENT ABOUT JOHN MARK PAUL UNDERTOOK JOURNEY WITH SILAS JOINED BY TIMOTHY (PAUL’S BEST COMPANION) & LUKE WROTE “I & II THESSALONIANS & GALATIANS” WHAT DID PAUL SEE AT RHODES?

THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES

3 RD MISSIONARY JOURNEY AD (Acts 18:23 to 21:17)

BEGAN JOURNEY WITH TIMOTHY VISITED SEVERAL CHURCHES ESTABLISHED ON PREVIOUS TRIPS 2.5 YEARS AT EPHESUS WHERE JOINED BY APOLLO HANKERCHIEFS TOUCHED BY PAUL HEALED THE SICK RAISED THE DEAD AT TROAS WROTE BOOKS OF “ROMANS & I & II CORINTHIANS”

4 TH MISSIOARY JOURNEY AUTUMN 60 - SUMMER 68 AD

LEAVES TITUS, GOES TO MACEDONIA & WRITES “I TIMOTHY AND TITUS” AD TRAVELED TO SPAIN & BRITIAN 67 AD BACK IN ROMAN PRISON WHERE HE WROTE LAST EPISTLE, “II TIMOTHY” BEHEADED BY NERO JUNE 68 AD ROMAN PRISONER IN CAESAREA SUMMER 58 – AUTUMN 60 AD HERE WROTE EPISTLES “EPHESIANS, PHILEMON & PHILLIPIANS” SAILS FOR ROME WITH LUKE AUTUMN 60 AD PRISONER IN ROME UNTIL SPRING 63 AD ACQUITED OF CHARGES & SAILS TO CRETE WITH LUKE & TITUS

SAINT BARNABAS A LEVITE JEW ONE OF EARLIST CHRISTIAN CONVERTS IN JERUSALEM ACCOMPANIED PAUL ON 1 ST MISSIONARY JOURNEY WROTE “GOSPEL OF BARNABAS” FOUNDED CHURCH OF CYPRUS MARTYRED AT SALAMIS, CYPRUS IN 61 AD

SAINT TIMOTHY A GREEK GENTILE CLOSE FRIEND & CONFIDANT OF PAUL REPLACED BARNABAS AND ACCOMPANIED PAUL ON HIS 2 ND & 3 RD MISSIONARY JOURNEY TWO OF PAUL’S LETTERS ADDRESSED TO TIMOTHY FIRST BISHOP OF EPHESUS STONED TO DEATH AT EPHESUS FOR OPPOSING A PAGAN RITUAL

SAINT LUKE A GREEK GENTILE WROTE “GOSPEL OF LUKE” JOINED PAUL ON 2 ND MISSIONARY JOURNEY AT TROAS REJOINED PAUL AFTER 3 RD MISSIONARY JOURNEY IN JERUSALEM ACCOMPANIED PAUL TO ROME AND REMAINED WITH HIM UNTIL PAUL’S DEATH HANGED IN GREECE FOR HIS PREACHING TO THE LOST

SAINT JOHN MARK WROTE “GOSPEL OF MARK” (I & II PETER ?) JEWISH MOTHER ACCOMPANIED PAUL & BARNABAS ON 1 ST MISSIONARY JOURNEY; LATER BARNABAS TO CYPRUS ; PETER WAS CLOSEST CONFIDENT PETER INFORMATION SOURCE OF MARK’S GOSPEL? FOUNDER OF EGYPTIAN CHURCH & PATRON SAINT OF VENICE DIED IN ALEXANDRIA AFTER BEING DRAGGED BY HORSES

SAINT SILAS SILAS AND PAUL IN THE PHILIPPIAN JAIL RECORDS OF SILAS’ MISSIONARY WORK OBSCURE SEVERAL CHURCHS WORLDWIDE WITH HIS NAME MARTYRED (UNKNOWN WHERE OR HOW)

WRITERS OF THE GOSPELS: MARK PRESENTS CHRIST AS THE SERVANT OF THE LORD WRITTEN PRINCIPALLY FOR THE ROMAN WORLD MARK WAS BORN IN JERUSALEM (JEWISH MOTHER) & WHOSE FATHER THOUGHT TO BE GREEK SERVED AS A COMPANION AND (GREEK) INTERPRETER FOR SIMON PETER GOSPEL OF MARK THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN FROM KNOWLEDGE GAINED FROM HEARING ALL PETER’S SERMONS & ACCOUNTS OF JESUS’ MINISTRY GOSPEL WRITTEN IN GREEK TIME AND CALENDAR MARK WRITTEN APPROXIMATELY 65 AD

WRITERS OF THE GOSPELS: MATTHEW PRESENTS CHRIST AS SON OF DAVID & SON OF ABRAHAM WHO WROTE THE GOSPEL? MATTHEW, LEVI, MATTHEW LEVI, ANOTHER MATTHEW; UNKNOWN? MATTHEW WAS A GALILEAN, A JEW & A TAX COLLECTOR EUSEBIUS PAMPHIL, BISHOP OF CAESAREA & FATHER OF CHURCH HISTORY, SAYS WRITER OF MATTHEW WAS SYRIAN AND LIVED IN ANTIOC, SYRIA EARLY CHURCH FATHERS REPORT A HEBREW GOSPEL WAS WRITTEN BY MATTHEW BUT NO EVIDENCE HAS BEEN FOUND DUE TO ITS SOPHISTIFICATION AND GREEK INFLUENCE, SCHOLARS TODAY BELIEVE WRITTEN BY A NON-WITNESS WHOSE NAME IS UNKNOWN TO US AND DEPENDED ON SOURCES LIKE MARK & Q DOCUMENTQ GOSPEL WRITTEN IN GREEK TIME AND CALENDAR MATTHEW WRITTEN APPROXIMATELY 80 AD

WRITERS OF THE GOSPELS: LUKE PRESENTS THE PERFECT HUMANITY OF CHRIST LONGEST GOSPEL WRITTEN PRINCIPALLY FOR GREEKS LUKE WAS A GREEK GENTILE POPULAR STORIES SUCH AS THE PRODIGAL SON & THE GOOD SAMARITAN ARE FOUND ONLY IN THIS GOSPELPRODIGAL SON GOOD SAMARITAN MOST MODERN CRITICAL SCHOLARSHIP CONCLUDES THAT LUKE, USED THE GOSPEL OF MARK FOR HIS CHRONOLOGY AND A HYPOTHETICAL SAYINGS SOURCE Q DOCUMENT FOR MANY OF JESUS' TEACHINGS.LUKEGOSPEL OF MARK Q DOCUMENT GOSPEL WRITTEN IN GREEK TIME AND CALENDAR WRITTEN APPROXIMATELY 80 AD

WRITERS OF THE GOSPELS: JOHN PRESENTS JESUS AS THE CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD PART OF JESUS’ INNER CIRCLE: JOHN, BROTHER JAMES & PETER A HEBREW JEW WHO WITNESSED ALL JESUS’ WORKS ONLY ‘FOR SURE’ GOSPEL WRITTEN BY FIRST HAND ACCOUNT AND EYE WITNESS ONLY GOSPEL WRITTEN IN HEBREW CALENDAR AND TIME WRITTEN APPROXIMATELY 90 AD

WRITERS OF THE GOSPELS JOHN ONLY GOSPEL KNOWN WITH ASSURITY TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY EYE WITNESS ACCOUNT AND IN HEBREW TIME AND CALENDAR (ALL OTHER GOSPELS WRITTEN IN GREEK TIME AND CALENDAR) ALMOST VERBATUM QUOTES OF JESUS FOUND IN MATTHEW AND LUKE WHEN WRITTEN SO MANY YEARS AFTER JESUS’ DEATH INDICATE A POSSIBLE EXISTING COMMON SOURCE OF RECORDS: “Q DOCUMENT” THIS SEEMS A GOOD POSSIBILITY AS CURRENT THINKING SAYS THE WRITERS OF MATTHEW AND LUKE WERE NOT PRESENT TO WITNESS JESUS’ WORKS BOOKS THOUGHT TO BE TOO SOPHISTCATED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY UNEDUCATED FISHERMEN

WRITERS OF THE GOSPEL IF A COMMON SOURCE WAS USED FOR WRITERS OF THE GOSPELS, IT WOULD HAVE TO BE AN EARLIER WRITTEN RECORD “Q” DOCUMENT ?? AD GOSPEL OF MARK 65 AD GOSPEL OF MATTHEW80 AD GOSPEL OF LUKE 80 AD GOSPEL OF JOHN90 AD

WRITERS OF THE GOSPEL THOMAS GOSPEL OF THOMAS WRITTEN 50 AD QUOTED IN MANY HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; HOWEVER, NO COPY WAS KNOWN TO EXIST IN 1980’S, A COPY UNEARTHED IN EGYPT A REVIEW OF THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS SHOWS ITS BIBICAL IMPORTANCE – THE “Q” DOCUMENT MANY PASSAGES IN THOMAS FOUND THROUGHOUT IN LATER WRITINGS OF THE GOSPELS

THE EVIDENCE OF THEIR LABORS FIRST BIBLE COMMISSIONED BY CONSTANTINE APPROX IMATELY 315 AD 5 COPIES MADE – NONE REMAIN UNKNOWN WHAT BOOKS IT CONTAINED BUT KNOWN TO CONTAIN MANY WORKS NOT IN PRESENT BIBLE

THE EVIDENCE OF THEIR LABORS FIRST BIBLE FOR ENGLISH SPEAKING GENTILES BY KING JAMES IN 1611 CONTAINED BOOKS NOT FOUND IN TODAY’S BIBLES

THE EVIDENCE OF THEIR LABORS DOES TODAY’S BIBLE TRULY REPRESENT GOD’S WORD? WHERE ARE ALL THE BOOKS REMOVED BY MEN WHO LIVED SO LONG AFTER THE EARLY WITNESSES AND WRITERS WOULDN’T IT BE WONDERFUL TO SEE CONSTANTINE’S BIBLE WITH ITS MANY WORKS COMPILED ONLY 315 YEARS AFTER BIRTH OF CHRIST

ACTS OF THE APOSTLES (IN CONCLUSION) FAITHFULLY ENDEAVORED TO FULFILL JESUS’ GREAT COMMISSION GAVE UP ALL TO SERVE AND ESTABLISH CHRISTIANITY DOCUMENTED JESUS’ MINISTRY IN ESTABLISHING THE CHURCH GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR FAITH GAVE US ALL THE BOOKS AND LETTERS NECESSARY TO DOCUMENT CHRIST’S NEW TESTAMENT OF SALVATION THROUGHT FAITH THANK YOU FOR A JOB WELL DONE!!