Bible Verses About The Apostles

that which I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light, and that which you hear at the ear, proclaim on the house-tops.

`And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.

`Are not two sparrows sold for an assar? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father;

and of you--even the hairs of the head are all numbered;

be not therefore afraid, than many sparrows ye are better.

`Every one, therefore, who shall confess in me before men, I also will confess in him before my Father who is in the heavens;

and whoever shall deny me before men, I also will deny him before my Father who is in the heavens.

`He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me,

and whoever doth not receive his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.

`He who found his life shall lose it, and he who lost his life for my sake shall find it.

And he came to Capernaum, and being in the house, he was questioning them, `What were ye reasoning in the way among yourselves?'

and they were silent, for with one another they did reason in the way who is greater;

and having sat down he called the twelve, and he saith to them, `If any doth will to be first, he shall be last of all, and minister of all.'

And having taken a child, he set him in the midst of them, and having taken him in his arms, said to them,

`Whoever may receive one of such children in my name, doth receive me, and whoever may receive me, doth not receive me, but Him who sent me.'

And there happened also a strife among them--who of them is accounted to be greater.

And he said to them, `The kings of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those exercising authority upon them are called benefactors;

but ye are not so, but he who is greater among you--let him be as the younger; and he who is leading, as he who is ministering;

for who is greater? he who is reclining (at meat), or he who is ministering? is it not he who is reclining (at meat)? and I--I am in your midst as he who is ministering.

`And ye--ye are those who have remained with me in my temptations,

and I appoint to you, as my Father did appoint to me, a kingdom,

that ye may eat and may drink at my table, in my kingdom, and may sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.'

And they, having risen up the same hour, turned back to Jerusalem, and found gathered together the eleven, and those with them,

saying--`The Lord was raised indeed, and was seen by Simon;'

and they were telling the things in the way, and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread,