04 - James, The Lord's Brother -The Itineraries Of Paul
James, the Lord’s Brother In Galatians 1 we saw that Paul did not communicate with the apostles directly, but he stayed at Damascus for a little while, went out into Arabia, and then came back to Damascus. There he taught the Word boldly and then after a period of three years he went back to Jerusalem. He was there only 15 days and saw only Peter and James. The other apostles he didn’t see. Then he went up to Tarsus and Cilicia and from there over to Antioch of Syria with Barnabas and then they came back to Jerusalem when the famine was at Jerusalem. That’s when James was killed and Peter was put in jail and released and went to the house of Mary where they were having a prayer meeting and Rhoda answered the door. After that, when Herod died, then Paul and Barnabas went back up to Antioch in Syria. From there he went out on his first itinerary and after that itinerary he came back to Antioch and then went down to Jerusalem for the third time to the Jerusalem council. In Galatians 1 he talks about that first trip to Jerusalem. Galatians 1:18: Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. He didn’t stay there a very long time; as a matter of fact the record in Acts told us that he was supposed to get out of there real quick. Galatians 1:19: But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother. After this he goes up to Syria and Cilicia. In our next session we’re going to get into Paul’s first itinerary. Before we do that I want to go into some things that you have to weigh the evidence on and can’t draw any solid conclusion on a lot of the things. You have to say, “Well, I just don’t know for sure.” It says real clearly, here, that the one he saw was Peter when he went to Jerusalem. The other one that he saw was James, not the brother of John because John was the son of Zebedee. This James was the Lord’s brother. We want to look at who this was that Paul saw on his first trip back to Jerusalem after his con
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But this James, I know, was the Lord’s brother. Here are some scriptures that talk about Mary being the mother of James and Judas who could have been Mary, the mother of Jesus. Matthew 27:56: Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children. Matthew 27:61: And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre. Matthew 28:1: In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. Mark 15:40: There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome; Mark 16:1: And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. Luke 24:10: It was Mary Magda