#twelve disciples

Hello! It’s been a while, but after a couple of big life changes I’m back!! And I’m catching up on the requests that I was given too (woohoo! Praise God!!)

I was initially working on a Judas x Reader and that’s probably gonna be what I continue first (that or pick up another pending request to give some more inspo for it, as I had gotten a little stumped). I may also be a little rusty with writing but I want to do it again!

Twelve Olympians

Joseph and the amazing technicolor dream— Coat of Many Colors

Jesus and the Twelve Disciples

Twelve Angry Brothers (Grimm)

Twelve days of Christmas

I have a lot of thoughts on the Proto-Indo-European continuity of these, but one of the funniest fights I remember having with my mom was when I was around probably 7 or 8 and asked "so is Jesus basically the same as Joseph but...later?"

Which began a very angry conversation that started with "no, one of them died," but I was reading Percy Jackson at the time and had no survival instinct, so I followed up with "maybe they're all one of the Olympian gods? Peter guards the gate right? That's kind of like Hades."

"There weren't any witnesses to Jesus' resurrection. None. At. All.

Despite Jesus foretelling that he would rise on the third day after his death, not one of his disciples showed up to witness it. Not. A. One.

And when the women visited the empty tomb, expecting it to contain a corpse, and reported back to the Eleven Amigos, here's their response:

"But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense." (Luke 24:11)"

-- Robert Conner

None of the characters in the bible actually behave as if any of this is real.

If Beyoncé announced that she was going into a hospital and three days later she'd emerge with a new nose, they would need police and crowd control to manage the fans and paparazzi camped outside to be the first to see it.

In Christian theology and ecclesiology, the apostles, particularly 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 the life and ministry of Jesus in the 1st century AD, the apostles were his closest followers and became the primary teachers of the gospel message of Jesus. There is also an Eastern Christian tradition derived from the Gospel of Luke of there having been as many as seventy apostles during the time of Jesus' ministry.

The term apostle comes from the Greek apóstolos (ἀπόστολος) – formed from the prefix apó- (ἀπό-, 'from') and root stéllō (στέλλω, 'I send, I depart') – originally meaning 'messenger, envoy'. It has, however, a stronger sense than the word messenger, and is closer to a 'delegate'.

The Words of Eternal Life

60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?

61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?

62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.

65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.

66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?

68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.

69 And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.

70 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas