{"id":46566,"date":"2022-10-01T02:26:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/matthias-what-do-we-know-about-him-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:26:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:26:23","slug":"matthias-what-do-we-know-about-him-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/matthias-what-do-we-know-about-him-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthias &#8211; What Do We Know About Him? &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A querist asks, &#8220;Do you know of any sources of information about Matthias? The Bible doesn&#8217;t say anything about him outside of Acts 1. This is always something I&#8217;ve wondered about, and it just struck me to ask.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Matthias was the apostle elected to fill the place of the traitor Judas (Acts 1:26). Beyond that fact, we know that he had been a constant disciple of the Lord during the course of His ministry, and was a witness of His resurrection &#8211; being one of the conditions of election (Acts 1:21-22). Tradition numbers him among the 70 (Luke 10:1KJV), and says that he preached the gospel and suffered martyrdom in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>The following additional sources will add some information regarding Matthias:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia &#8211; Matthias<\/li>\n<li>Catholic Encyclopedia &#8211; St. Matthias<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;Twelve&#8221;? <\/li>\n<li>Answers.com &#8211; Saint Matthias<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A querist asks, &#8220;Do you know of any sources of information about Matthias? The Bible doesn&#8217;t say anything about him outside of Acts 1. This is always something I&#8217;ve wondered about, and it just struck me to ask.&#8221; Matthias was the apostle elected to fill the place of the traitor Judas (Acts 1:26). Beyond that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/matthias-what-do-we-know-about-him-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Matthias &#8211; What Do We Know About Him? &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}