Quotes About Apostles

When Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostlesí hands, he offered them money.

And after Peter and John had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many of the Samaritan villages.

Then Barnabas brought him to the apostles and described how Saul had seen the Lord, who spoke to him on the road to Damascus, and how Saul had spoken boldly in that city in the name of Jesus.

The apostles and brothers throughout Judea soon heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword.

Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul found out about this, they tore their clothes and rushed into the crowd, shouting,

And after engaging these men in sharp debate, Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question.

On their arrival in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and apostles and elders, to whom they reported all that God had done through them.

So the apostles and elders met to look into this matter.

Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to select men from among them to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas called Barsabbas and Silas, two leaders among the brothers,

and sent them with this letter: The apostles and the elders, your brothers, To the brothers among the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings.

As they went from town to town, they delivered the decisions handed down by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the people to obey.

God did extraordinary miracles through the hands of Paul,

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow countrymen and fellow prisoners. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.

For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.

Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lordís brothers and Cephas?

Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?

And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, and those with gifts of healing, helping, administration, and various tongues.

Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?

and that He appeared to Cephas and then to the Twelve.

Then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles.

Whether, then, it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.

I consider myself in no way inferior to those “super-apostles.”