The Story of the Twelve Apostles

They started out as average, unexceptional men of their time: fishermen, farmers, local magistrates. But their dedication to a prophetic Jewish preacher in the backwaters of the Roman Empire transformed them into revolutionaries and, in the process, changed the world itself in ways that would reverberate across time for two thousand years.

Now, discover the extraordinary untold stories of the men chosen by Jesus to bring God's plan to the world.

• Peter, the rock upon which Christ would build His new religion
• James and John, the fiery tempered "sons of thunder"
• Matthew, the tax collector later murdered by cannibals
• Simon the Zealot, the anti-Roman fanatic eventually "cut to pieces" preaching in Spain
• Judas Iscariot, whose betrayal would be paid for with silver and suicide

From early messianic politics, to the shock of the Crucifixion, to the final acceptance of their epic mission to spread the Gospel through the known would, it's an inspiring, astonishing story of the little-known men who became The Twelve Apostles.