The Apostle Phillip

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

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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.

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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

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Apostle Nathanael to Christ saying we have found him of whom Moses and the law and also the prophets wrote

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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?

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The son of God. Philip is prominently featured in the Gospel of John for example in John chapter 6

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Jesus tests Philip when he was going to feed the 5 ,000. Later he appears as a link to the

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Greek community. Philip bore a Greek name could likely speak Greek and he may have been known to the

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Greek pilgrims in Jerusalem so that was a good asset to have. He advises Andrew that certain

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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.

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After the Last Supper Philip in John 14 requested, you remember this, he requested that Jesus show them the

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Father that we want to see the Father and Jesus told him anyone who has seen me has seen the

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Father. The last time the Bible mentions the disciple Philip is at the gathered assembly in Jerusalem to pray after the

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Lord's Ascension in Acts 1 verse 13 and there's a lot of the Apostles after 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.

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Tradition states that he went to Phrygia which is modern -day Turkey as a missionary and there was martyred means he was killed for his faith but notice

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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