2.41 Jesus' Disciples II: The Other Guys

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 23 June 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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After the Big Three disciples come the forgettable bit-players, the Nondescript Nine: Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew (also known as Nathaniel), Matthew, Thomas Didymus, James son of Alphaeus, Judas (also known as Thaddaeus), Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot.

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0:00.0	Gide. I'm Gary Stevens. And welcome to the second series of the History in the Bible podcast.
0:13.1	More of the history in more of the books in all the Bibles.
0:19.8	Episode 2.41, Jesus Disciples Part 2.41.
0:21.9	Jesus Disciples Part 2, The Other Guys.
0:27.7	In the last episode, I babbled on about the cabinet of three, Jesus' best mates.
0:34.5	Let's look at the others.
0:37.1	After the cabinet of three, Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, John and James,
0:43.8	the other nine disciples barely rate a mention in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke.
0:50.4	Many are just names in lists.
0:53.7	Only the Gospel of John and the Book of Acts tells us anything about them.
0:59.0	Later Christians were frustrated by the obscurity of these nine.
1:04.0	There must be more deeds to relate, surely.
1:08.0	Right through to the early Middle Ages, Christians composed acts and Gospels in their
1:13.6	names to flesh out the abstoress of the obscure nine.
1:18.6	The great exception to the obscurity of the nine is, of course.
1:30.3	Judas, son of Simon Iscariot.
1:35.8	The gospel writers only ever use the Greek version of his name, Eudus.
1:39.5	His Hebrew name was Yehuda, Judah.
1:44.3	The Roman province of Judea was full of men named Yehuda.
1:50.2	After Satan, there is no more reviled a person in the New Testament.
1:53.9	He is mentioned 16 times in that book,
1:58.7	pipping even one of the cabinet of three, James son of Zebedee.
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