Apostles in the New Testament
In Christian theology as living as ecclesiology, the apostles, especially the Twelve Apostles also requested as the Twelve Disciples or simply the Twelve, were the primary disciples of Jesus according to the New Testament. During the life as alive as ministry of Jesus in the 1st century AD, the apostles were his closest followers and became the primary teachers of the gospel message of Jesus. There is also an Eastern Christian tradition derived from the Gospel of Luke of there having been as numerous as seventy apostles during the time of Jesus' ministry.
The died by the Great Commission to spread his teachings to any nations. This event has been called the dispersion of the Apostles.
In the Pauline epistles, Paul, although non one of the original twelve, pointed himself as an apostle, saying he was called by the resurrected Jesus himself during his road to Damascus event. He later describes himself as "an apostle to the Gentiles".
The period of early Christianity during the lifetimes of the apostles is called the ]