who among these people were/were not deciples of jesus?

Question

Matthew
Mark
Luke
John

Answer 1

i know luke wasnt a disciple of jesus. he only wrote his part of the gospel after Jesus had died. plus, luke was a gentile, which means he wasnt a jew, unlike the others. as for the others, i have no idea

Answer 2

If you mean apostle, neither Luke nor Mark was an apostle. Both, however, were disciples inasmuch as a follower of Christ is a disciple of Christ.

Apparently Luke, who wrote the gospel bearing his name, became a believer sometime after Pentecost. Mark was a companion of the disciple Barnabas.

So of the four you mentioned, only Matthew and John were apostles.

Incidentally, there is no reason to think Luke was a Gentile and not a Jew. The apostle Paul, under divine inspiration, makes it clear at Romans 3:1 that the Jews were entrusted with the sacred pronouncements of God. The Jews were inspired by God to write all 66 books of the Holy Bible. So Luke had to be a Jew.

Hannah J Paul

Answer 3

The Deciples Of Jesus were also called Apostles..

Matthew and John were deciples of Jesus.
Mark and Luke were not deciples.

Here is the names of the 12 deciples {Apostles} that Jesus chose, to send out among the people to teach and cast out demons..

Peter, James, he is the son of Zebedee, John, Andrew, Phillip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James, he is the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed jesus...

Answer 4

If you mean which were amoung the inner group of 12, Matthew and John were.

Jesus also had some occasions in which he expanded the group by another 70+ disciples. It appears that Mark's family was amoung those. They were close enough to Jesus that he used their home for the Last Supper. Mark himself was only in his mid teens at the time of Jesus' death and resurrection. Mark also travelled with the apostles Paul and Barnabas, and later with the apostle Peter who considered him as a "son".

Luke did not know Jesus during his ministry. He was a Gentile convert about about 15-20 years afterwards. His gospel (according to the first five verses) is based on research and interviews with the people involved. That is one of the reasons there are events or details missing from Luke that are found in the earlier gospels of Mark and Matthew. If he could not find a witness, he did not include it.

The reason that God used those four different writers - some "disciples" and some not - is very simple. If you wanted an accurate picture of someone's life, there are four different types of sources you would want to consider...

The first would be an account by someone actively involved - an insder, writting at or close to the times of the events. You have this in Matthew, one of the inner circle of 12.

The second source would be what the "crowds" thought of the person. What did people think who only saw him in public, and only heard his sound bits and speechs. This is recorded by Mark, who was a "fan" of Jesus.

Next you would want to look at what other scholars have to say about him, having researched his life and teachings. This is found in the writings of Luke, who has to compile his account from the writings, records, and interviews with others who knew him. Yet after compiling from all the accounts existing at that time, Luke is 92% the same as Matthew and Mark, with only 8% of the material unique to Luke. The majority of that being the expanded account of the birth and childhood of Jesus. If there were "other gospels" of Jesus, why did he not quote a single one?

Finally you have the gospel of John. The last gospel written (probably 30-40 years after the others). It not only records the words and deeds of Jesus, but includes commentary and interpretation and almost every event. It gives us the prespective of someone who has had decades to reflect on the teachings of Jesus, to see their affect on lives, to come to understand the teachings and events. And present them with a maturity and wisdom that only comes with time. We get not only the teaching, but a reflection on how it has changed an influenced the world.

An historian or scholar would want to have all four of these sources: the insiders, the public, the scholar, and the elder, when trying to understand a person life. God gave us all four of them in the gospels.

Answer 5

Luke
Mark

Answer 6

Luke wasn't

Answer 7

I am gonna guess and say Luke.

Answer 8

All of them were