apostle

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Originally, the burning figures were effigies of Judas Iscariot, the apostle who betrayed Jesus, according to the Biblical account of the days leading up to Christ’s crucifixion.

From Seattle Times

These people were the unwitting models for his bas-relief sculpture of a Black Jesus breaking bread with 12 Black apostles.

From Washington Post

In the Book of 1 Corinthians, for example, the apostle Paul explains, "God's temple is holy, and you are that temple."

From Salon

The Catholic Church teaches that priests should be celibate, that women cannot be priests because Jesus chose only men as his apostles and that while same-sex attraction is not sinful, homosexual acts are.

From Reuters

The Catholic Church teaches that only men can become priests because Jesus chose men as his apostles.

From Reuters