We present in this issue
the topic #135 from the
Systematized Study of
the Spiritist Doctrine,
that is being presented
weekly, according to the
programme elaborated by
the Brazilian Spiritist
Federation (FEB),
structured in 6 modules
and 147 topics.
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group, we suggest that
questions proposed be
discussed freely before
the reading of the text
that follows. If you
would like to study
alone, we ask you to try
to answer the questions
at first and only then
read the text that
follows. The answer key
can be found at the end
of the lesson.
Questions
1. Who were Jesus' first
apostles?
2. Did the companions'
of the Messiah group
face difficulties to
harmonize?
3. Between the initial
apostles, ten if they
almost found that daily
beside Jesus. What is
the name of the other
two?
4. With Jude Iscariot's
death, one of the
disciples was chosen to
substitute him. Which
his name?
5. Who were Paulo and
what facts we can
highlight in his
apostolic work?
Text
The apostles' group
gathered twelve people
initially
1. Jesus congregated
around itself twelve
direct disciples:
Andrew, brother of
Peter; Bartholomew;
Philip; John, brother of
James Boanerges; Jude
Iscariot; Mathew (Levi);
Simon Peter; Simon, also
called "The Zealot";
Jude of James; James
Boanerges; James of
Alphaeus, and Thomas
Didymus.
2. Assigned of propagate
the Gospel or Good New,
each one was
immortalized as
correspondent or
"apostle." Those
Spirits, called by Jesus
to compose his apostolic
school, they would be
the interpreters of
their actions and of
their teachings.
3. Peter, Andrew and
Philip were children of
Bethsaida, from where
came James and John,
children of Zebedee
equally. Levi, Jude of
James and James,
children of Alphaeus and
his wife Mary of Clopas,
relative of Mary (mother
of Jesus), they were
Nazarene and they loved
Jesus from the
childhood, being a lot
of times called of
"siblings of the
Mister", tends in their
view deep affectionate
likenesses. Thomas
descended of an old
fisherman of Dalmanutha,
and Bartholomew belonged
to a laborious family of
Cana of Galilee. Simon,
later called "The
Zealot", he had left
their land of Canaan to
engage in fishing, and
only one of them, Jude,
was a little discordant
note of that concert,
because he had been born
in Iscariot and it had
been consecrated to a
small trade in
Capernaum, where he sold
fish and gewgaws.
4. The companions' of
the Messiah reduced
group tried at first
certain difficulties to
harmonize. Mathew, that
initially was called of
Levi, it continued in
their works of the local
tax office and Judas
Iscariot continued in
their businesses,
although if they
gathered the other
companions, that almost
lived daily that
constantly with Jesus,
close to the transparent
waters of Tiberias.
To the initial group
they joined Mathias and
Paulo later
5. Mathew was not
fisherman, but publican,
and it was conserved in
the obscurity while
Christ was in the Earth.
Only after the ascension
of the Mister he entered
in action, preaching in
Judea and in the
neighboring countries,
until the apostles'
dispersion. According to
Cairbar Schutel, Mathew
would have taken
advantage of their
moments of rest to write
the Gospel that takes
his name.
6. Son of Simon
Iscariot, of the city of
Kerioth, Jude was,
according to Humberto de
Campos, an impassioned
by Jesus' socialist
ideas and he understood
that the politics would
be the only weapon with
which could triumph, in
addition he didn't get
to reconcile the victory
with the detachment of
the wealths. When giving
Jesus to Caiaphas, he
didn't imagine that the
things took the
direction that you took
and, in despair, he
committed suicide.
7. Brother of Andrew,
Simon Peter was
fisherman and,
integrating the group
since the beginning, he
became a type of the
apostles' interpreter
and seemingly of the
most assiduous close to
the Master, that
certainly for that it
designated him as the
"stone" on which would
build his church,
according to annotation
of Mathew (16:18).
8. Besides the twelve
apostles that integrated
the initial group fits
to mention us two
disciples that joined
later to the apostolic
school: Mathias and
Paulo.
Paul was born in Tarsus,
but was educated in
Jerusalem
9. Matthias replaced
Judas and little is
known about his work
before this choice,
except that out of the
72 disciples that the
Lord has designed and
sent, two by two ahead
of him, all the cities
and places intended to
visit. According to a
tradition committed to
the Greeks, after
Pentecost, Matthew
preached the Gospel in
Cappadocia and to the
sides of the Euxine.
10. Paul was born in
Tarsus, in Cilicia, and
belonged to a family of
Jews Pharisaic sect.
Educated in Jerusalem,
was a disciple of
Gamaliel. After leading
an intense persecution
of Christians, Paul
converted to
Christianity at the
gates of Damascus and
from there took a job
that did not find
similar in any of the
other apostles of
Christ.
11. To speak of Paulo's
mission and of his
vigorous personality it
is not easy task. To
know in their details it
is indispensable the
reading of the book
"Paulo and Estêvão"
(Paul and Stephen), of
authorship of Emmanuel.
Concisely, we can say
that the mission of Paul
of Tarsus went to take
the Good New to the
heathens and, this way,
to universalize the
Christianity, work that
accomplished with true
devotement and immense
sacrifices.
12. In carrying out its
mission, Paul made three
major trips going to
Bithynia, Cappadocia,
Cilicia, Phrygia,
Galatia, Lycia and many
other cities, including
Rome. And also was
immortalized by his
letters, in number of
14. Arrested and taken
to Rome was the capital
of the Roman Empire that
came to disembody,
victimized by a sword
that split the neck and
severed her head almost
entirely.
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