“And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.”
When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room where they were staying. Those present were Peter, John, James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas, Bartholemew and Matthew; James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James — the list of eleven apostles mirrors the Gospels' accounting (minus Judas Iscariot). The upper room (hyperoon) echoes the Last Supper location and becomes the womb of the church. The diverse backgrounds (tax collector, zealot, fishermen) show the Spirit will work through unlikely instruments.
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