Oh, but they did. They established Churches in Persia, and Syria, and India, and Africa. The ones we don’t hear about were evangelists, who went abroad, and established many of the oldest churches. As it says, the least are the greatest, and the greatest are the least. I’d assume the Apostles we didn't hear about did some mighty things. The apostles we do hear about, like Matthew Levi Alphaeus—wrote a gospel being the only one literate—James Son of Thunder died immediately, and was among the first martyrs. But Judas Thaddeus Lebbeus Son of James and Simon the Zealot were evangelists in Persia and Syria, and planted churches there. Philip we know evangelized in Israel from Acts, but they say went as far as Anatolia and Greece and lived in Caesarea Philippi. John was the eldest apostle, dying at a ripe old age, and dictated the book of John through Papias around 90AD. Nathan Bartholomew established churches in Armenia, some of the oldest churches in the world. Doubting Thomas was an evangelist in Asia and India—and was killed by a Pagan King, same with Jude and Simon in Persia. Peter was stationed in Jerusalem and Rome, and was the Rock which kept the church solvent—they say the first bishop of Rome—and the source for the Gospel of Mark. Andrew ministered the churches in Turkey, which are some of the most famous in Christianity, being mentioned by John. Paul and Matthais were the two half tribes, and Matthais ministered all around the world, but seemed to plant Ethiopian Churches which again are among the eldest. James the Son of Alphaeus—or James the Less—was Bishop of Jerusalem, and the source, along with Mary the Lord’s Mother, of the Gospel of Luke. But from reading about all the Apostles, they planted hundreds of churches, in dozens of locations, each around the known world. They travelled everywhere planting churches, each one might have visited about a dozen locations, within a 700 mile radius.
Mark 13:51Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord. 52Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
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