Why an understanding of Luke chapter 9 and 10 are so important
What happened to the Apostles?
What happened to the 70 Disciples?
a record by Pseudo-Hippolytus
Hippolytus of Rome was a disciple of Irenaeus, a disciple of Polycarp, a disciple of Apostle John. Hippolytus’s works were considered lost prior to their discovery at a monastery on Mount Athos in 1854.[6] While his major work The Refutation of All Heresies was readily accepted (once the false attribution to Origen was resolved), his two small works, On the Twelve Apostles of Christ and On the Seventy Apostles of Christ, are still regarded as dubious, put in the appendix of his works in the voluminous collection of the writings of early church fathers.[7]
The above link is a major source of information on the 72 Disciples. wikipedia also has excellant documentation and draws information from orthodoxwiki.
We are going to begin a study of these disciples starting with those that were Deacons The Seven Deacons were:
According to the narrative in Acts, they were identified and selected by the community of believers on the basis of their reputation and wisdom, being ‘full of the Holy Spirit‘, and their appointment was confirmed by the Apostles.
Stephen, (died 36 ce, in in Jerusalem and the first Christian martyr, whose apology before the
What happened to the 70 Disciples?
e record by Pseudo-Hippolytus[edit]
Hippolytus of Rome was a disciple of Irenaeus, a disciple of Polycarp, a disciple of Apostle John. Hippolytus’s works were considered lost prior to their discovery at a monastery on Mount Athos in 1854.[6] While his major work The Refutation of All Heresies was readily accepted (once the false attribution to Origen was resolved), his two small works, On the Twelve Apostles of Christ and On the Seventy Apostles of Christ, are still regarded as dubious, put in the appendix of his works in the voluminous collection of the writings of early church fathers.[7] Here is the complete text of Pseudo-Hippolytus‘s On the Seventy Apostles of Christ:
- James the Lord’s brother, bishop of Jerusalem
- Cleopas, bishop of Jerusalem
- Matthias, who supplied the vacant place in the number of the twelve apostles
- Thaddeus, who conveyed the epistle to Augarus (Abgar V)
- Ananias, who baptized Paul, and was bishop of Damascus
- Stephen, the first martyr
- Philip, who baptized the Ethiopian eunuch
- Prochorus, bishop of Nicomedia, who also was the first that departed, 11 believing together with his daughters
- Nicanor died when Stephen was martyred
- Timon, bishop of Bostra
- Parmenas, bishop of Soli.[a]
- Nicolaus, bishop of Samaria
- Barnabas, bishop of Milan
- Mark the Evangelist, bishop of Alexandria
- Luke the Evangelist
These two belonged to the seventy disciples who were scattered by the offence of the word which Christ spoke, “Except a man eat my flesh, and drink my blood, he is not worthy of me.” But the one being induced to return to the Lord by Peter’s instrumentality, and the other by Paul’s, they were honored to preach that Gospel on account of which they also suffered martyrdom, the one being burned, and the other being crucified on an olive tree.
- Silas, bishop of Corinth
- Silvanus, bishop of Thessalonica
- Crisces (Crescens), bishop of Carchedon in Gaul
- Epænetus, bishop of Carthage
- Andronicus, bishop of Pannonia
- Amplias, bishop of Odyssus
- Urban, bishop of Macedonia
- Stachys, bishop of Byzantium
- Barnabas, bishop of Heraclea
- Phygellus, bishop of Ephesus. He was of the party also of Simon
- Hermogenes. He, too, was of the same mind with the former
- Demas, who also became a priest of idols
- Apelles, bishop of Smyrna
- Aristobulus, bishop of Britain
- Narcissus, bishop of Athens
- Herodion, bishop of Tarsus
- Agabus the prophet
- Rufus, bishop of Thebes
- Asyncritus, bishop of Hyrcania
- Phlegon, bishop of Marathon
- Hermes, bishop of Dalmatia
- Patrobulus, bishop of Puteoli
- Hermas, bishop of Philippopolis (Thrace)
- Linus, bishop of Rome
- Caius, bishop of Ephesus
- Philologus, bishop of Sinope
- and 43. Olympus and Rhodion were martyred in Rome
- Lucius, bishop of Laodicea in Syria
- Jason, bishop of Tarsus
- Sosipater, bishop of Iconium
- Tertius, bishop of Iconium
- Erastus, bishop of Panellas
- Quartus, bishop of Berytus
- Apollos, bishop of Cæsarea
- Cephas
- Sosthenes, bishop of Colophonia
- Tychicus, bishop of Colophonia
- Epaphroditus, bishop of Andriace
- Cæsar, bishop of Dyrrachium
- Mark, cousin to Barnabas, bishop of Apollonia
- Justus, bishop of Eleutheropolis
- Artemas, bishop of Lystra
- Clement, bishop of Sardinia
- Onesiphorus, bishop of Corone
- Tychicus, bishop of Chalcedon
- Carpus, bishop of Berytus in Thrace
- Evodus, bishop of Antioch
- Aristarchus, bishop of Apamea
- Mark, who is also John, bishop of Bibloupolis
- Zenas, bishop of Diospolis
- Philemon, bishop of Gaza
- Aristarchus
- Pudes
- Trophimus, who was martyred along with Paul