Jézus többi tanítványa, nőtanítványai és származási helyük

Abstract

Jesus’ Other Disciples, Women Disciples and their Place of Origin.

The election and mission of Jesus was followed by the vocation and election of the disciples. Jesus called and elected his disciples on the basis of his sovereign will. Their call reminds us sometimes of the vocation of the Old Testament prophets. His disciples did not have to endure a period of probation as the followers of the Teacher of Righteousness in Qumran and they were not elected to study the Torah as the disciples of the rabbis. The goal of the rabbis was not to bind their disciples to their own person but to teach them devotion to the Torah. Therefore, it was quite common for a disciple to leave his rabbi, and find another one if he thought that the new teacher could provide him better instruction. The goal of the Greek philosophers was the same: not to attach the student to their person but to teach them to search for the truth which was above both of them. Jesus called his disciples – among whom some were from the group of disciples of John the Baptist – not for theoretical teaching but for the continuation of his service. When they were called, they had to abandon their jobs, their homes, their relatives, in one word everything, and they even had to give up their lives. Jesus elected twelve disciples because by this he indicated that he has laid claim to all twelve tribes of Israel, and through his disciples he gathers the old- new people of God for salvation. Some of the disciples were poor and others were rich, and they were people having different livelihood. Among them there were tax collectors, who served the Roman Empire without any reservation previously, and zealots who formerly belonged to the radical Jewish party. Jesus gathered all these men around him and transformed them into new persons. Many people queried the moment of coming into being of the Twelve’s group. Those stated that they were the outcome of the congregation’s faith after Easter, or the outcome of Mark’s fantasy which was placed before Easter. It cannot be denied – despite many suppositions and attractive hypotheses which assert the contrary – that Jesus called and elected the twelve disciples before Easter. Their election was from a larger group of disciples. It was not necessary for everyone to leave everything behind in order to follow him, because he had many disciples who remained at home, and female disciples, who served him from their wealth on the way. The disciples came geographically from Galilee, which is significant with regard to their later mission.