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>> in the new testament gospels, jesus starts his mission traveling through galilee and judea, gathering followers. from them, he chooses 12 to be his closest disciples. >> the term "disciple" simply means learner or student. so when jesus is calling disciples, hes simply gathering a group of students around to learn from him. >> the disciples come from a wide range of backgrounds. from fishermen to tax collectors. >> there was recruitment by jesus, deliberate recruitment. and he wanted a divers...

Character is. and there are lots of possibilities. some even suggest that it was lazarus that jesus raised from the dead. >> the disciple whom jesus loved appears at the last supper. >> one of you will betray me tonight. >> ask him. which one he means. >> lord, who is it? who will betray you? >> the only person in that gospel about whom it is said he is the one whom jesus loved is lazarus. >> the idea that lazarus might be the beloved disciple is a bit wild, but its not without merit. it helps e...

Judas may well have been one of the very first he recruited. >> jesus was a pretty good judge of character. anyone who jesus had chosen as a disciple must have had something going for him. >> judas was the treasurer of jesuss 12 disciples. he was the one jesus trusted with the money. >> jesus saw in judas the kind of man that he wanted to be his follower. we have to assume that theyre friends and that they have this close relationship. >> hes special. he has a key place. and yet somethings going...

You have come, and im not worthy to utter the name of the one who has sent you. >> judas is singled out as the one disciple with whom jesus feels he can speak openly. judas understands. >> hell take judas aside and explain to him cosmology, his own fate, and the role that judas is going to play in human history. >> this lost gospel appears to give a new explanation of the betrayal of jesus and exonerate the man reviled throughout history, judas iscariot. ♪ ♪ ♪ the greatest wish of all is o...

Supporting jesus. which means that theyre also following him. theres a name for people that follow jesus and that name is disciple. in any situation where someones holding the purse strings, they have power. theyre in control. so the fact that shes a backer of the jesus movement, it doesnt mean that she gets to shape jesus teaching, but it gives her access to jesus. >> mary follows jesus during the many months that he preaches in galilee, but what happened during that time? an astonishing discov...

>> jesus is betrayed by judas. and condemned by pilate. >> the idea that lazarus is the beloved disciple helps us understand a crucial piece of the passion narrative. why is the beloved disciple the only male disciple standing at the foot of the cross when all the others have fled? perhaps its because the beloved disciple understands that the cross is not the end. the beloved disciple has already experienced resurrection. >> were told that mary, the mother of jesus, and the beloved disciple are ...

Subject of intense debate and interest. >> in 2006, nearly 30 years after its discovery, the gospel of judas is finally revealed to the world. >> this is a new gospel. it tells a new story of the last days of jesus christ. its a dialogue between jesus and judas. >> it is the only known copy of a text originally written in the second century a.d. the actual author of the gospel of judas remains unknown. >> its not the gospel according to judas. so all the other gospels that we have are always acc...

Protect you and will entirely be with you for he has -- >> the gospel of mary suggests that marys relationship with jesus is resented by peter. >> once marys finished instructing, a full scale argument breaks out between mary and peter. >> did he prefer her to us? >> what do you think? that i made this up in my heart, that i am lying about the savior? >> this is clearly a fight between the disciples for supremacy, for who is going to be the chief disciple and who properly carries on jesus teachi...

On the island of cyprus every year orthodox christians venerate the bones believed to be of jesuss friend lazarus. but there is little in the bible to support their tradition. >> one of the problems is lazarus only appears in the gospel of john. he pops up out of nowhere, hes raised from the dead and vanishes from the narrative. >> and this really has to make you wonder, is this an historical event, or is this a legend that makes a theological point about the importance of resurrection in christ...

Was a zealot. a zealot is a technical term for a group of revolutionaries who are really strongly opposed to roman occupation. if judas was one of these revolutionaries, maybe he got frustrated jesus wasnt taking enough action in public enough, pressing the matter hard enough. >> maybe he handed over jesus in the hopes that creating a confrontation between jesus and the romans would be the spark that would cause jesus to begin the events that would topple the roman empire. >> these political int...