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The significance of seven disciples named in Papias and their consistent ordering with the Gospels

The Gospels Are History Not Myth 00:16:26 – 00:17:27

Internal consistency between Papias's disciple list and the Gospel disciple lists.

Papias names seven disciples (Andrew, Peter, Philip, Thomas, James, John, Matthew). In Jewish literary convention, naming seven implies the full group. The ordering of names (Andrew, Peter, Philip, Thomas, James, John) matches the cluster groupings found in the Gospel disciple lists — a small but meaningful consistency between Papias and the Gospels.
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2019-02-20

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