You're listening to a podcast on Catholic Saints. This podcast is produced by the Augustine Institute,

an Apostolate helping Catholics understand, live, and share their faith.

Welcome to Form Now. My name is Dr. Ben Acres, and I'm the Executive Director of Formed.

Joining me today is Dr. John Seahorn, is a professor of theology and scripture here at the August Institute.

Thanks for joining me, John.

Very welcome.

And we're going to go today for the feast day.

We're going to go through all the passages in the New Testament that tell us who Bartholomew

or Nathaniel is.

So we'll see both of those names.

Go.

This is a sort of ambitious approach to this, isn't it?

We're going to look at all the things we know about St. Bartholome,

who's feces today. So if you have your Bibles, you can follow along with me real quick here.

So the first place is in Matthew chapter 10, where we hear about Jesus sending out the 12 apostles.

And starting in verse 2, it says, the names of the 12 apostles are these. First, Simon,

who's called Peter, he's a familiar one, and Andrew, his brother, James, the son of Zebedee,

and John, his brother, Philip and Bartholomew. And of course, it goes on from there. So that's one

passage where we learn about Bartholomew. The next one, I'm actually not just going to go through him because it'll be boring.

They're actually just parallels in Mark chapter 3 and then in Luke chapter 6

and then actually again in Acts chapter 1 after the ascension,

we get these lists of Jesus's 12 disciples, 11 in Acts 1 of course, until Judas is replaced by St. Matthias.

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