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The stories and contributions of the apostles provide an important entrée into church history. However, the legends of the apostles after the New Testament are confusing and steeped in myth. This historical and literary introduction uncovers the apostles’ lives and legacies, underscoring their impact on the growth of the early church. While a good bit of the available information on the apostles...

sent on mission, and that the Twelve are not the only disciples or the only apostles.20 Luke 6:13 is a guiding verse: “And when day came, He [Jesus] called His disciples to Him and chose twelve of them, whom He also named as apostles.” Meier posits that Luke is consistently using the titles “the Twelve” and “the apostles” interchangeably, so that he is the “main NT catalyst for the later Christian custom of speaking of ‘the twelve apostles.’ ”21 There is something special about these first twelve,
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