The Twelve – Philip
The Twelve – Philip
Series: The Twelve
Topic: apostles, hellenistic jews, Philip
Service Type: Sunday Evening
Our information from scripture about Philip is limited, so we need to infer what we can about Philip from these few mentions of him taking care not to read anything into the scripture. We see that Philip was called directly and individually by Jesus to be one of His apostles. We also see in the story of the feeding of the 5,000 that Philip was somewhat pedantic and literal in his understanding of the lessons Jesus taught him. When he was approached by some Greeks who wished to see Jesus, Philip was cautious. It wasn’t Philip’s nature to be brash and decisive like Peter and the sons of Zebedee.