Acts Quote by Alfred Noyes

Luke associates John with Peter in Acts, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.

— Alfred Noyes

“Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized…

— Scotty Smith

Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter's stands at their head.

— John Strachan

Peter must have thought, "Who am I compared to Mr. Faithfulness (John)?" But Jesus clarified the issue. John was responsible for John. Peter was…

— Anonymous

To declare in St John's words that Jesus and the Father are one is to claim that Jesus's dependence on the Other is not…

— Terry Eagleton

“But if Luke and John were simply constructing narratives to combat Docetism, they surely shot themselves in the foot with both barrels when they…

— N.T. Wright

“John, who was transformed into a passionate lover of God, had lost everything he knew in order to come into that which he did…

— James W. Goll

“If Luke and John were simply constructing narratives to combat Doceticism, they surely shot themselves in the foot with both barrels when they spoke…

— N.T. Wright

“In one of his early epistles Paul calls himself the “least of all the apostles.” Later on he claims to be “less than the…

— D.L. Moody

“In some parts of the church, the Apocalypse of John (the book of Revelation) was flat out rejected as containing false teaching, whereas the…

— Bart D. Ehrman

“The same subversion of power by truth is evident in the way in which Luke begins his account of Jesus of Nazareth. Luke is…

— Walter Brueggemann

Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.

— Mahatma Gandhi