Christians which apostle or apostles was Jesus Christ closest to?

Question

And which apostle or apostles annoyed him the most as well?

Answer 1

For instruction, He chose an inner circle of Peter, James and John, and allowed only those three to see Him in His full divine glory (the Transfiguration) as well as His greatest moment of human need (the Garden of Gethsemane). Of these, John was apparently (the identification is not literally spelled out) the "Beloved Disciple" of the Gospel of John, the closest to Jesus on the personal level. Peter was his closest associate in ministry. Peter was also the one who annoyed him the most, as when Jesus called him Satan (meaning adversary, not Devil) when Peter rejected the idea that Jesus must suffer and die, and of course when Peter first proclaimed that he was willing to die with Jesus and then denied knowing Him three times in one night. James, interestingly, having shared in the two visions with the others, is not selected in the way they are, but is selected instead to be the first of the twelve to face martyrdom. (Not the first Christian, that honour was given to the deacon Stephen.)

So they were all selected, and they all honoured Jesus in different ways, Peter through active leadership, John through close friendship and long verbal witness (in the community of Ephesus) and James through early death.

Answer 2

Peter, James, and John were the key leaders in the New Testament Church and to that extent functioned as a First Presidency. Whether these Apostles regularly met apart from the rest is not known, but their authority is evident from the Bible and early Christian writings. Most important, Christ selected them. He promised Peter, “I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven.” (Matt. 16:19.) An event shortly after suggests fulfillment, when the three accompanied Jesus to a “high mountain apart,” where Moses and Elias appeared in glory before them. (See Matt. 17:1–3.)

Answer 3

the 12

Answer 4

John, in the gospel of John he refers to himself as "the disciple whom Jesus loved," john was his brother and is considered as the disciple who was the closest to Him

Edit: there where two others, Peter and James, all three where with Jesus during some of his most personal times, the garden where he prayed and then was arrested and the mountain where it is said His glory was shown (transfiguration)

Answer 5

John seems to have been close to the Savior, as iut is stated that he was "the disciple that he loved." John was also Jesus' brother. (Matthew 17:1)

Answer 6

I would have to say Peter. He was part of the 3 that went into the Garden to keep watch and he is the one that got special instructions from Jesus.

Answer 7

The first century churches were started by the apostles and some of Jesus' disciples and later by disciples of the apostles. Each church was totally independent or control of any other church. They would conference with the church in Jerusalem. They were small groups and eventually covered the total of the inhabited world, from England to China. They were terribly persecuted by Judaism and Paganism. Many altered the original path that Jesus had established begin to put man's ideas in their doctrine. However, the bulk of them for the first three centuries remained faithful to the first established doctrine. The were call by many name, the most popular as found in documents appears to be ana-baptist, then there were paulians, arnoldist and so many more. Then in 313 AD a terrible thing happened. Constantine the Great attempted to use the Christians as a way to unite townships all around Rome. He called a counlcil of the ministers of the Christians and pagans. Very few Christians attended, but those who did were leaning toward an more lenient religion, finding Jesus too hard to follow. Out of this and over the next 1700 years plus emerged the Roman Universal Catholic Church. It became the first of the so called Christian churches to persecute Christian. They began to ritualize the church, worship idols(images) have infant baptism(sprinkling or pouring water over their head) and many other none Christian ideas as established by Jesus, the founder and leader of the Christian movement. The ana-baptist of which there were many were forced to hid in mountain and valleys avoiding the instruments of destruction of the Catholic Church who had now become a Church/State. During the "Dark Ages" little is known but it is estimated that millions of Christians died at the hands of other so called Christians--the Catholic Church of Rome. In about 350 AD Rome government went temporarily to Greece, to a town now called Constantinople. This is where the Greek Orthodox Catholic was founded, most like the Roman Universal Catholic Church. Then the empire was moved back to Rome but now the two churches competed. In the late 1500's emerged the Lutheran(Martin Luther) and became a church state with Germany. Then Calvin and the Presbyterian and John Knox of Scotland becoming the church state of Scotland then followed by Henry VIII, king of England broke from the Catholic over divorce thus forming the Church of England. Thus you now have the Protestant. Sad part they broke from the Roman Catholic Church but retained much of their doctrine--still very little was left of what Jesus taught a church should be. Now we not only have the Roman Universal Catholic Church claiming to be the mother church, but with the new four Protestant--we have five churches who claim to be Christian persecuting anyone who does not fall in line with them--other Christians. Still being called by many different names. According to one author of renown, there was a very large church of ana-baptist in several European larger cities that were similar in nature to the Dutch Baptist. These were reported prior to the Protestant so are not Protestant. We call them evangelical or fundamentalist. Late in the 1500 or shortly after 1600, date is lost, the Wesley brothers established the Methodist church so is not a protestant church either. Mennonites and Amish of different European origin were both at one time called Ana-Baptist. On until today, the church associated with that nickname of Baptist which has never been under the hierarchy of the Catholic Church is the Baptist. In the USA there are 50 groups of Baptist, the largest is the Southern Baptist Convention, second the American Baptist Association(Missionary) and the Northern Baptist. These three make up the bulk of Baptist but all claim their origin to be at the feet of Jesus. There is a great amount of evidence in records over the years to confirm their claim-and a lot of it prior to the establishment of the church of Constantine of 313 AD. My church experience is rather broad for my 74 years, being a lay-minister and all. I have studied this topic quite often and extensively. There is perhaps several other denominations that fit your question but I do not know of any but the Baptist. I am personally affiliated with the Southern Baptist but find the Missionary Baptist quite equal in most important ways. It would be a joy if you joined us and began to reach the lost with us.

Answer 8

John, whom Jesus loved
Peter and James, became especially close to Jesus.

Answer 9

It was John. It was also John who stood at the cross with Jesus's mother, it was John who Jesus asked to care for His mother

Answer 10

Jesus, like myself, had/have a fondness for John.