The Apostle Phillip

The Apostle we're going to be looking at this Sunday is the Apostle Philip, not to be confused with Philip

the Evangelist that's mentioned in the book of Acts.

The Apostle Philip was like Peter and Andrew from the fishing village of

Bethsaida in Galilee.

His call to be a disciple is recorded in the Gospel of John chapter 1 verse 43, and

immediately after that, Philip is the one who led the Apostle Nathanael to

Christ, saying, We have found him of whom Moses and the law and also the prophets wrote,

Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.

And of course they went from believing that he was the son of Joseph to believing that he was what?

The son of God.

Philip is prominently featured in the Gospel of John, for example, in John chapter 6,

Jesus tests Philip when he was going to feed the 5 ,000.

Later, he appears as a link to the Greek community.

Philip bore a Greek name, could likely speak Greek, and he may have been known to

the Greek pilgrims in Jerusalem.

So that was a good asset to have.

He advises Andrew that certain Greeks wish to meet with Jesus, and together they inform

Christ of this in John chapter 12.

So this was their way of evangelizing this different group.

After the Last Supper, Philip in John 14 requested, you remember this, he requested

that Jesus show them the Father, that we want to see the Father.

And Jesus told him, Anyone who has seen me has seen the

Father.

The last time the Bible mentions the disciple Philip is at the gathered assembly in

Jerusalem to pray after the Lord's Ascension in Acts 1 verse 13.

And there's a lot of the apostles, once you get to the book of Acts, you don't even really hear about them.

So we don't really know what happened to Philip.

Tradition states that he went to Phrygia, which is modern -day Turkey, as a missionary and there

was martyred.

It means he was killed for his faith.

But notice I said this is tradition.

The Bible only records the deaths of James and Judas.

So really we have to take some of these traditions with a grain of salt.

But this is the Apostle Philip.