Holy brothers, you who participate in a heavenly calling, look at Jesus then, at the apostle and high priest of our confession;

But when the apostles, Paul and Barnabas, heard this they rent their clothes and sprang out among the crowd,

I saw no other apostle, only James the brother of the Lord.

Titus is my colleague, he shares my work for you, and these brothers of mine are apostles of the church, a credit to Christ.

'Apostles'? They are spurious apostles, false workmen ??they are masquerading as 'apostles of Christ.'

he met Nathanael and told him, "We have found him whom Moses wrote about in the Law, and also the prophets ??it is Jesus, the son of Joseph, who comes from Nazaret."

On going outside after this he noticed a taxgatherer called Levi sitting at the tax-office and said to him, "Follow me";

"Lord," said Judas (not Judas Iscariot), "why is it that you are to appear to us, and not to the world?"

Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon (who was called 'the Zealot'),

Then they cast lots for them, and the lot fell upon Matthias, who was assigned his position with the eleven apostles.

PAUL an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and brother Timotheus, to the church of God at Corinth as well as to all the saints throughout the whole of Achaia:

Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: grace and peace to you.

Brothers, you recollect our hard labour and toil, how we worked at our trade night and day, when we preached the gospel to you, so as not to be a burden to any of you.

Salute Andronicus and Junias, fellow-countrymen and fellow-prisoners of mine; they are men of note among the apostles, and they have been in Christ longer than I have.