According to the New Testament, Jesus was arrested by the Roman authorities for claiming to be the son of God, though some modern day historians suggest that the Romans detained him as he was a threat ...

This Sunday's lectionary reading for Year A, Epiphany 3, is Matt 4.12–23. The epistle is 1 Cor 1.10–18, where Paul gets into ...

Mary Magdalene who, despite popular culture, was not a prostitute, a noblewoman named Joanna and a healer called Salome were among his close circle. And Joanna, who had been married to an official of ...

DEAR DR. GRAHAM: What happened to the original 12 disciples of Jesus? Were any of them taken directly up into heaven without ever seeing death, the way some people were in the Old Testament? Or do we ...

Judas Iscariot is famous for being a disciple of Jesus who betrayed him in exchange for money. Of the 12 disciples of Jesus, "only Peter gets more lines of coverage from the Gospel writers than does ...

Was it St. Peter the greatest of Jesus' original Twelve disciples? St. Peter is certainly the most commonly mentioned of the original Twelve. He always stands at the head of the list whenever the ...

The male disciples of Jesus were inadequate. They lacked faith. Their self-appointed role was to prevent children and the needy from getting to Jesus. They were carnal; vaingloriously fighting for ...