3 others in the registry answer to the name Philip. Every Philip in the Bible
- verses
- 15
- first named
- Matthew 10:3
- last named
- Acts 1:13
- period
- the New Testament
- role
- Apostle
Description
Who was Philip?
Philip was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ, chosen by Him to be part of His inner circle of disciples. He was from Bethsaida, the same town as Andrew and Peter (Jhn.1.44).
Philip is first mentioned in the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) in the lists of the twelve apostles (Mat.10.3; Mrk.3.18; Luk.6.14). In the Gospel of John, he is introduced in the narrative of Jesus calling His first disciples. After being called by Jesus, Philip found Nathanael and told him about Jesus, describing Him as the one Moses and the prophets wrote about (Jhn.1.45).
Throughout the Gospel of John, Philip is portrayed as having a close relationship with Jesus. He was present at the feeding of the five thousand, where Jesus tested him by asking where they could buy bread to feed the multitude (Jhn.6.5-7). Philip was also approached by some Greeks who wanted to see Jesus, and he, along with Andrew, brought their request to Jesus (Jhn.12.21-22).
In Jhn.14.8-9, Philip asked Jesus to show them the Father, to which Jesus responded, "Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father."
After Jesus' ascension, Philip was among the apostles who gathered in Jerusalem to pray and await the coming of the Holy Spirit (Act.1.13). He played a significant role in the early Christian church and, according to tradition, preached the gospel in Phrygia and died a martyr's death in Hierapolis.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The 10 best-attested of 12 are drawn. All 12 are listed below.
Places
Where this happens
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No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Philip is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
15 verses across 5 of 66 books; 61 write the name nowhere. Named in Matthew (1), Mark (1), Luke (1), John (11) and Acts (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 15, across 5 books. The name is written 16 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Mark 3Philip was appointed among the Twelve.
- John 1Philip followed Jesus and found Nathanael, inviting him to come and see.
- John 6Philip calculates that two hundred denarii would not provide enough bread for the crowd.
- John 12Philip carried the Greeks’ request to Andrew.
- John 14Philip asks Jesus to show the disciples the Father, finding that sufficient.
- Acts 1Philip is named among the apostles gathered in the upper room.
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