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Chapter 3 - EPISODE THREE

Let me remind you when a summary of the gospel was listed the twelve apostles were listed in order of proportionality and closeness to the importance of Jesus. 

(LUKE 6:12-16)

Jesus appoints the twelve apostles

One night Jesus went up into a mountain to pray, and he continued the whole night in prayer. The next day he called his disciples to himself, and from among them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:  Simon (whom Jesus also named Peter) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus and James the son of Alphaeus; Simon (also called Zealot), Judas the son of James and Judas Iscariot, who later became a traitor.

the general arrangement is believed to show the close coherence of their personal relationship with Jesus. Judas was always mentioned last, which may indicate his lack of personal intimacy with Jesus.

And then let me remind you among the few references to the conversation between jesus and juda involves Judas being rebuked by jesus after his speech to mariam motivated by his lust

(JOHN 12:1-8)

Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. Here a dinner was given in Jesus' honor. Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him. Then Mary took about a pint[a] of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus' feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected, "Why wasn't this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year's wages. He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag he used to help himself to what was put into it.

"Leave her alone," Jesus replied. "It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial. You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me."