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ELEVEN APOSTLES II �ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES

{Where Document name is cited first, it is Quoted}

[1]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 17:20-21a [NIV] - "My prayer is not for them alone.� I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.� May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me."

[2]�� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 22:37 [NIV] - Jesus replied, " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' "

[3]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 1:1 [NIV] - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

[4]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 16:7 - "It's better for you that I leave.� If I don't leave, the Friend won't come.� But if I go, I'll send him to you."

[5]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 14:16-17; 17:17 [NIV] - "And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever ~ the Spirit of Truth....Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth."

[6]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 14:17-18 - "The Spirit of Truth...lives with you and will be in you.� I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you."

[7]�� THE BIBLE, ACTS 1:13 - They went to the upper room they had been using as a meeting place:� Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew [Nathaniel], Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, Judas, son of James [Thaddeus].

[8]�� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 6:9-13 [KJV] - "Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.� Thy kingdom come.� Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.� Give us this day our daily bread.� And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.� And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:� For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.� Amen."

[9]�� THE BIBLE, 1 TIMOTHY 2:5 - There's one God and only one, and one Priest-Mediator between God and us ~ Jesus.

[10]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 24:45-46a - He went on to open their understanding of the Word of God, showing them how to read their Bibles this way.� He said, "You can see now how it is written that the Messiah suffers...."

[11]�� THE BIBLE, PSALM 41:9 - Even my best friend has turned against me ~ a man I completely trusted; how often we ate together.

[12]�� SEE VOLUME VI, PROMISE KEEPER, "Fallen Star."

[13]�� THE BIBLE, ZECHARIAH 11:12b-14 - So they counted out thirty little silver coins as my wages.� And the Lord told me, "Use it to buy a field from the pottery makers."� So I took the thirty coins and threw them into the Temple for the pottery makers.

[14]���� THE BIBLE, ZECHARIAH 12:10 - Then I will pour out the spirit of grace and prayer on all the people of Jerusalem, and they will look on him they pierced, and mourn for him as for an only son, and grieve bitterly for him as for an oldest child who died.

[15]�� THE BIBLE, ZECHARIAH 14:7 - It will be a unique day, without daytime or nighttime ~ a day known to the Lord.� When evening comes, there will be light.

[16]�� THE BIBLE, PSALM 34:20 - Not one of his bones is broken.

[17]�� THE BIBLE, ISAIAH 53:9a [KJV] - And he made his grave with the wicked.

[18]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 24:46 - He told them, "This is what is written:� The Christ will...rise from the dead on the third day."

[19]�� THE BIBLE, ISAIAH 26:19b [KJV] - And he made his grave...with the rich in his death.

[20]�� THE BIBLE, HOSEA 6:2-3 - After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence....As sure as the sun rises, he will appear.

[21]�� THE BIBLE, JONAH 1:17; 2:1-7 - Jonah was inside the fish three days and three nights.� From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God...."From the depths of the grave I called for help....you brought my life up from the pit....when my life was ebbing away."

[22]�� THE BIBLE, ZECHARIAH 14:5b - You will escape as your people did long centuries ago from the earthquake...and the Lord my God shall come, and all his saints and angels with him.

[23]�� THE BIBLE, PSALM 16:10 - For you will not leave me among the dead; you will not allow your beloved one to rot in the grave.

[24]�� THE BIBLE, DANIEL 9:25-27 - Now listen!� It will be forty-nine years plus 434 years from the time the command is given to rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One comes....The king will make a seven-year treaty with the people, but after half that time, he will break his pledge and stop the Jews from all their sacrifices and their offerings.

[25]�� THE BIBLE, NUMBERS 4:23 - ...all of the men between the ages of thirty and fifty who are eligible for the sacred work of the Tabernacle.

[26]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 3:23 - When Jesus entered public life he was about thirty years old.

[27]�� THE BIBLE, GENESIS 22:18; PSALM 89:3-4, 27-28 - "[God to Abraham] Your [single] offspring will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth"...."I have made a solemn agreement with my chosen servant David...to establish his descendants as kings forever on his throne, from now until eternity....I will treat him as my firstborn son, and make him the mightiest king in all the earth.� I will love him forever."

[28]�� THE BIBLE, ISAIAH 7:14 - All right then, the Lord himself will choose the sign ~ a child shall be born to a virgin.� And she shall call him Immanuel (meaning, "God is with us").

[29]�� THE BIBLE, MICAH 5:2 - O Bethlehem, Ephrathah, you are but a small Judean village, yet you will be the birthplace of my King who is alive from everlasting ages past!

[30]�� THE BIBLE, JEREMIAH 31:15 [NIV] - "A voice is heard [over] in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel [Abraham's daughter-in-law] weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because her children are no more."

[31]�� THE BIBLE, HOSEA 11:1 - When Israel [Abraham's grandson] was a child I loved him as a son and brought him out of Egypt.

[32]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 3:16 [KJV] - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him shall not parish, but have everlasting life.

[33]��� �� THE BIBLE, JOHN 1:3 - Everything was created through him [whenever God spoke, it was God the Word/Son]; nothing ~ not one thing! ~ came into being without him.

[34]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 22:34 - Jesus said, "I'm sorry to have to tell you this, Peter, but before the rooster crows you will have three times denied that you know me."� [This occurred the night Jesus was betrayed over a month earlier.]

[35]�� THE BIBLE, ACTS 1:3-4 - After his death, he [Jesus] presented himself alive to them in many different settings over a period of forty days.� In face-to-face meetings, he talked to them about things concerning the kingdom of God.� As they met and ate meals together, he told them that they were on no account to leave Jerusalem but "must wait for what the Father promised:� the promise you heard from me.� John baptized in water; you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.� And soon."

[36]���� THE BIBLE, EPHESIANS 1:23 - The church is Christ's body, in which he speaks and acts, by which he fills everything with his presence.

[37]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 24:50a - He then led them out of the city over to Bethany.

[38]�� SEE VOLUME VII, SHADOW OF DEATH, "The Substitute" and "Bowels of Hell"

[39]�� THE BIBLE, MARK 16:15-16; ROMANS 6:4 - "Go into the world.� Go everywhere and announce the Message of God's good news to one and all.� Whoever believes and is baptized is saved; whoever refuses to believe is damned"....That's what baptism into the life of Jesus means.� When we are lowered into the water, it is like the burial of Jesus; when we are raised up out of the water, it is like the resurrection of Jesus.

[40]�� THE BIBLE, MARK 16:17-18 - "These are some of the signs that will accompany believers:� They will throw out demons in my name, they will speak in new tongues, they will take snakes in their hands, they will drink poison and not be hurt, they will lay hands on the sick and make them well."

[41]�� SEE VOLUME VI, PROMISE KEEPER, "Citadel of Shadows"

[42]�� SEE VOLUME I, ANGEL SONG, "Walking Tall."

[43]�� THE BIBLE, ACTS 1:6 - When they were together for the last time they asked, "Master, are you going to restore the kingdom to Israel now?� Is this the time?"

[44]�� THE BIBLE, ACTS 1:7 - "He told them, "You don't get to know the time.� Timing is the Father's business."

[45]�� THE BIBLE, ACTS 1:8a - "What you'll get is the Holy Spirit."

[46]�� THE BIBLE, ACTS 1:8 - "And when the Holy Spirit comes on you, you will be able to be my witnesses in Jerusalem, all over Judea and Samaria, even to the ends of the world."

[47] As always, any time Jesus' words are not in the Bible but are strongly inferred, they are italicized.

[48]�� THE BIBLE, REVELATION 1:13-15 - ....In the center, the Son of Man[kind], in a robe and gold breastplate, hair a blizzard of white, eyes pouring fire-blaze, both feet furnace-fired bronze, his voice a cataract [of rushing mighty waters].

[49]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 24:51; ACTS 1:9 - Raising his hands he blessed them, and while blessing them, took his leave, being carried up to heaven....These were his last words.� As they watched, he was taken up and disappeared in a cloud.

[50]�� THE BIBLE, ACTS 1:10b-11a - Suddenly two men appeared ~ in white robes!� They said, "You Galileans! ~ why do you just stand here looking up at an empty sky?"

[51]�� THE BIBLE, ACTS 1:11b; HEBREWS 12:2b; 1 THESSALONIANS 4:16-17 - "This very Jesus who was taken up from among you to heaven will come as certainly ~ and mysteriously ~ as he left"....and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God....He'll come down from heaven and the dead in Christ will rise ~ they'll go first.� Then the rest of us who are still alive at the time will be caught up with him into the clouds to meet the Master.� Oh, we'll be walking on air!� And then there will be one huge family reunion with the Master.

[52]�� THE BIBLE, HEBREWS 1:3 - After he finished the sacrifice for sins, the Son took his honored place high in the heavens right alongside God.

[53]�� LUKE 24:52� - And they were on their knees, worshiping him.� They returned to Jerusalem bursting with joy.

[54]�� THE BIBLE, ACTS 1:12-14 - So they left the mountain called Olives and returned to Jerusalem....They went to the upper room....They agreed they were in this for good, completely together in prayer, the women included.� Also Jesus' mother, Mary, and his brothers.

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