Alphaeus = "changing"

1. The father of Levi the publican (Mk 2:14)

2. The father of James the less, so called, one of the apostles

ascend

1. to go up

2. to rise, mount, be borne up, spring up

Andrew = "manly"

1. A native of Bethsaida in Galilee, brother of Simon Peter, a disciple of John the Baptist, and afterwards an apostle of Christ. He is said to have been crucified at Patrae in Archaia.

Bartholomew = "son of Tolmai"

1. one of the twelve apostles of Christ

to be, to exist, to happen, to be present

into, unto, to, towards, for, among

to go out or come in: to enter

1. of men or animals, as into a house or a city

2. of Satan taking possession of the body of a person

3. of things: as food, that enters into the eater's mouth

metaph.

1. of entrance into any condition, state of things, society, employment

   1. to arise, come into existence, begin to be

   2. of men, to come before the public

   3. to come into life

2. of thoughts that come into the mind

one burning with zeal, a zealot

used of God as jealous of any rival and sternly vindicating his control

most eagerly desirous of, zealous for, a thing

1. to acquire a thing, (zealous of)

2. to defend and uphold a thing, vehemently contending for a thing

one burning with zeal, a zealot

used of God as jealous of any rival and sternly vindicating his control

most eagerly desirous of, zealous for, a thing

1. to acquire a thing, (zealous of)

2. to defend and uphold a thing, vehemently contending for a thing

   From the time of the Maccabees there existed among the Jews a class of men, called Zealots, who vigorously adhered to the Mosaic law and endeavored—even by a resort to violence, after the example of Phinehas—to prevent religion from being violated by others. In the latter days of the Jewish commonwealth they used their holy zeal as a pretext for the basest crimes.

I was, etc.

Thomas = "a twin"

1. one of the apostles

James = "supplanter"

1. son of Zebedee, an apostle and brother of the apostle John, commonly called James the greater or elder, slain by Herod, Acts 12

2. an apostle, son of Alphaeus, called the less

3. James the half-brother of Christ

4. an unknown James, father of the apostle Judas (?)

Judah or Judas = "he shall be praised"

1. the fourth son of Jacob

2. an unknown ancestor of Christ

3. a man surnamed the Galilean, who at the time of the census of Quirinus, excited the revolt in Galilee, Acts 5:37

4. a certain Jew of Damascus, Acts 9:11

5. a prophet surnamed Barsabas, of the church at Jerusalem, Acts 15:22,27,32

6. the apostle, Jn 14:22, who was surnamed Lebbaeus or Thaddaeus, and according to opinion wrote the Epistle of Jude.

7. the half-brother of Jesus, Mt. 13:55

8. Judas Iscariot, the apostle who betrayed Jesus

John = "Jehovah is a gracious giver"

1. John the Baptist was the son of Zacharias and Elisabeth, the forerunner of Christ. By order of Herod Antipas he was cast into prison and afterwards beheaded.

2. John the apostle, the writer of the Fourth Gospel, son of Zebedee and Salome, brother of James the elder. He is that disciple who (without mention by name) is spoken of in the Fourth Gospel as especially dear to Jesus and according to the traditional opinion is the author of the book of Revelation.

3. John surnamed Mark, the companion of Barnabas and Paul. #Acts 12:12

4. John a certain man, a member of the Sanhedrin. # Ac 4:6

and, also, even, indeed, but

to remain permanently, to abide

Matthew = "gift of Jehovah"

1. son of Alphaeus, one of the 12 disciples

this, that, these, etc. Only significant renderings other than "the" counted

when whenever, while, as long as

where

Peter = "a rock or a stone"

1. one of the twelve disciples of Jesus

Peter = "a rock or stone"

1. Peter was one of the apostles

2. Simon called Zelotes or the Kanaites

3. Simon, father of Judas who betrayed Jesus.

4. Simon Magus, the Samaritan wizard

5. Simon the tanner, Ac. 10

6. Simon the Pharisee, Luke 7:40-44

7. Simon of Cyrene who carried the cross of Christ

8. Simon the cousin of Jesus, the son of Cleophas

9. Simon the leper, so called to distinguish him from others of the same name

not only... but also

both... and

as... so

the highest part of the house, the upper rooms or story where the women resided

a room in the upper part of a house, sometimes built upon the flat roof of the house, whither Orientals were wont to retire in order to sup, meditate, pray

Philip = "lover of horses"

1. an apostle of Christ

2. an evangelist and one of the seven deacons of the Jerusalem church

3. tetrarch of Trachonitis, was brother to Herod Antipas, by the father's, but not by the mother's side. Philip was born of Cleopatra, of Jerusalem, and Herod of Malthace, a Samaritan: he died in the twentieth year of Tiberias, five years after his mention in Lk. 3:1. He built Caesarea Philippi. His step brother Herod Antipas, married his wife unlawfully. (Gill)

4. see 2542, Caesarea Philippi