The Disciples Chosen by Jesus Trivia Quiz

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The first four books of the Bible's New Testament, known as Gospels, are about the life of Jesus. They were written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and all contain an account of how Jesus chose his disciples.

The Gospels differ slightly about the order in which Jesus asked the first four disciples to follow him but writers of the first three Gospels are agreed that He approached two sets of brothers who were all fishermen. He was already travelling around the Sea of Galilee region preaching when He saw the first two brothers; Simon, who was also named Peter, and Andrew. He called to them to follow Him and He would make them 'fishers of men' (Matthew 4:18-20, Mark 1:16-18) and they did. Soon afterwards He saw James and John, sons of Zebedee and cousins of Jesus, and they too responded to His call by following Him (Mark 1:19-21).

John's Gospel gives details of Jesus meeting and talking to Philip, who came from the same town, Bethsaida, as Peter and Andrew did. Philip then went to Bartholomew (called Nathanael by John), told him about Jesus and both became His disciples (John 1:43-51). The first three Gospel writers again agree that a little while later Jesus saw a tax collector for the Romans named Levi sitting down and called on him to be His follower. Levi got up and joined Jesus straight away and his name was changed to Matthew (Mark 2 :13-17).

By this time many men were following Jesus as he travelled around Galilee and adjoining areas preaching. Luke describes how Jesus went away from this crowd to pray by Himself for a night then the next day told all of His followers which twelve of them He had chosen to be what He called his apostles. He named the seven men already mentioned and also Thomas, James, Simon, Judas, and Judas Iscariot (Luke 6: 12-16). James was also known as James the Younger and Judas as Judas Thaddeus, among other names, to distinguish them from the other James and Judas. All those chosen accepted Jesus' call and Mark adds that Jesus chose these twelve men to accompany Him, to go out to preach and to drive out demons (Mark 3:13-19).

The twelve became His companions with Peter, John and James agreed to be the disciples who were closest to Him and Peter being accepted as the leading disciple. With the apostles Jesus later entered Jerusalem to much acclaim from a crowd. However, a few days afterwards Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus for thirty pieces of silver. He did this by pointing Jesus out to soldiers of His enemies, the priests, by kissing Him and Jesus was arrested (Matthew 26:47-56).

After Jesus had been sentenced to death and crucified (John 19:16-30), Judas Iscariot killed himself (Matthew 27:5) and the other apostles chose Matthias to replace him (Acts of the Apostles 1:21-26). Acts of the Apostles, later books of the New Testament and other documents show that the disciples travelled to spread the word of Jesus among different communities and that each of them was eventually killed because of their work. For instance, Peter became head of the Christian church in Rome, and was later accounted the first of the Popes, but was killed in AD 64 during the reign of the emperor Nero.