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From there he traveled to neighboring towns preaching, teaching in parables, healing, and performing miracles. Three years later on the Sunday before the Passover, Jesus Christ entered Jerusalem where he was met by crowds of people who acclaimed him the Messiah.
The next Wednesday when Jesus Christ was in Bethany, the scribes and priests in Jerusalem conspired with his disciple Judas to arrest and kill Jesus Christ by stealth. Thursday evening after Jesus had retired to the Garden of Gethsemane, he was arrested by a crowd sent by the Jewish religious authorities.
On Friday, he was executed by crucifixion at Golgotha after being convicted of blasphemy against the tenets of Judaism by the Jewish high court known as the Sanhedrin.
As a cruel sarcastic taunt against the Jews, the Romans who did not want to execute Jesus posted the words "King of the Jews" at the top of his cross. Later that day because of the approach of Sabbath, when burial was not permitted, his body was taken down and laid in a nearby tomb.
On Sunday morning the tomb
was found empty since Jesus had risen from the dead, giving humanity hope of
life after death. He then instructed his disciples for another forty days before
he ascended into the heavens.
Angels console the beloved Apostle Mary of Magdalene by showing her the risen Jesus
Painting The Morning of the Resurrection by Edmund Burne-Jones
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The term Apostles in general refers to one of the twelve disciples chosen by Jesus Christ at the beginning of his ministry to be entrusted with a divine mission as messengers and delegates to carry on his work to heal the sick and to preach the revealed truth to the world.
They were: the sons of Jonas, Simon Peter and Andrew, and the brothers, James and John, all of whom were fisherman; Matthew, the tax collector; Simon, the zealot; Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Thaddeaus, also known as Jude, James the Lesser, and Judas Iscariot.
After his ascension, Jesus Christ chose Paul, formerly Saul of Tarsus, to replace Judas who had betrayed him, thereby supplanting Matthias who had been selected by the apostles. Many of the Christian apostles were persecuted and executed, burned at the stake, fed to lions, or nailed to a cross.
More recent analysis of historical data indicate that Mary Magdalene, who was seated next to Jesus in Da Vinci's Last Supper painting and had also written a gospel, was actually his chief disciple and chosen successor rather than Peter.
There is also considerable
and highly plausible speculation that she may have been the wife of Jesus and
bore him a daughter in France after the crucifixion; and, that a Sangreal or
"Holy Bloodline" continues to live on today. To read more about the apostles
please see
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Public Domain Image Angels console the beloved Apostle Mary of Magdalene by showing her the risen Jesus, Painting The Morning of the Resurrection Painting
by Edmund Burne-Jones, [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Burnejone1.jpg]. Accessed June 30, 2008.
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