Welcome Dear Readers! This week Gregory was attending vacation bible school which is just like regular Sunday School only hotter and with a lot more coloring. Let’s see what Gregory got to color, shall we?
Gregory Brings Home The Twelve Disciples Coloring Book!
One day while Jesus was soaking up some rays at the sea of Galilee, he saw some fishing ships. Well this gave Jesus an idea! He would make all the fishermen he saw, fishers of men! So He got busy recruiting twelve disciples.
So color along with us as we open the pages of the Twelve Disciples Coloring Book!
Simon was one of the first fishermen Jesus recruited. He belonged to a sect called the Zealot Club where they spent a lot of time poo-pooing taxation and throwing darts at pictures of Pontius Pilate.
Simon
Andrew was known as the “introducer” because he introduced his brother, Simon to Jesus. He and Simon owned a fishing business, and Andrew did all the marketing.
Andrew
Bartholomew was in Jesus’s top six. Jesus recognized Bartholomew as a man of imagination and vision. Plus he had epically big guns!
Bartholomew
Then there was John. Besides being one of Jesus’s favorites disciples, John was the first person to recognize Jesus after Jesus resurrected. He later went on to write a bestseller called “The Revelations”.
John
Then there was John’s brother, James. James was one of the three disciples who made up Jesus’s inner circle. James was the first disciple to succumb to martyrdom which in those days was fatal.
James
Another Disciple of Jesus’s was also named James. Everybody called him James the Less because he was younger than the other James. He kept telling everyone to call him Jimmy but it just never stuck.
James the Less
“Not unless you call me Jimmy!”
Peter (or maybe Simon)
Peter’s name was actually Simon but everybody called him Peter for short except for Jesus who called him “The Rock” or possibly “Rocky” because of his immovable faith. And yet, after Jesus got arrested, Peter denied he knew Jesus three times until he heard a rooster crow which reminded him that oh yeah he did know Jesus after all! Duh!
Peter “The Rock” Simon
Another disciple was Thomas, who was cursed with the nagging doubts that are produced when an individual has low self-esteem combined with being a stickler for details. After Jesus was resurrected, Thomas refused to believe it until Jesus showed him the nail prints and two pieces ID.
Thomas
Then there was Jude. Not to be confused with Judas. Jude was the least famous of the disciples except for maybe James the Less who was Jude’s brother. Jude was the introverted disciple who never raised his hand and who laughed at everybody’s jokes but never made any himself.
Jude
One of the disciples was Mathew, who was the richest of the disciples before he gave up everything to follow Jesus. He was a tax collector and was good with details. Mathew always had a pencil in his had and took it upon himself to write down everything Jesus said word for word. Everybody thought he was hard of hearing because he was always asking Jesus, “What was that again?”
Matthew
And finally there was Judas. Judas was the disciple who said all the right things but who was slightly sketchy. But nobody suspected just how sketchy until after Jesus got arrested and suddenly Judas had 30 pieces of silver burning a hole in his robe pocket and he was buying everybody drinks and looking at expensive pyramids. Of course, in the end Judas repented so that he could still get to heaven.
Judas
And there you have it, Dear Readers! The Twelve Disciple Coloring Book! Gregory says have fun coloring and be sure to stay in the lines!
Until next time . . . I love you
Linda Vernon Humor 
I like James the Lesser, there’s something biblically challenging about that title. Again Linda you have educated me in the bible once again. I have often wondered that if Judas repented and made it into heaven how come he was never elevated to saintliness as was every one else? Just wondering for it wasn’t for him the whole dying on the cross thing and redemption of mankind may not have happened. I think we woe him a lot. Have a good day.
What a creative thought, Michael! ! I guess mankind is like a deck of cards, you can’t play the game without the aces but you also can’t play the game without the duces either. Somebody had to be that bad guy. Sometimes it’s the duces that win the game! Without him the world would have never been saved!
True Linda. I remember in the movie ‘oh God’ god was asked why there was good and bad. He explained it as everything has two sides.
Ha! Yes indeed. And that makes me want to watch Oh God again. I forgot all about that movie, it was so good. And I think I’ve only seen it once, the very first time it came out in theaters. I’l have to look and see if it’s online somewhere. 😀
I want to color every disciple! I think my favorite is Peter, the Rock. His beard is to die for.
I can’t wait until next Sunday! Will Gregory still be on vacation? If so maybe he will get to visit a natural history museum and his bible teacher will explain away all that pesky science with bible versus.
Now that’s an idea. Unfortunately I don’t think Gregory knows enough about science or the bible to tackle that one! He does have a pretty sweet beard though. I say sweet because every time he eats figs most of them end up in his beard.
Done them all!
(does anyone know how to get felt tip off an Apple laptop screen? It is my friend’s. They come home in about an hour.)
I love the think of you at your friend’s house coloring disciples on their computer screen! I bet you ate that last piece of pie too. I think you might want to leave before they get back.
Pie was exceptional. Taxi was punctual. I am a God.
Is that you Bond? James Bond?
Gregory is hilarious!
Ah! Shucks. Thank you. I’ll tell him you said so, Bucky!
Perfect!
:D!!
I’m pretty sure I could go to hell just by reading this… I wonder if they will start reserving my seat now if I print these out and get my kids to colour them.
Printing them out? Brilliant idea! Never occured to me.
My brilliance stems exclusively from alcohol. And burritos.
If you get your kids to color them I’m pretty sure the reading of this will be redeemed. And though I haven’t run across it in the bible as yet, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Lord had a great big soft spot for cute little kid coloring!!
What about Carl? Wasn’t there a disciple named Carl? Martyrdom is for suckers. Give yourself over to martyrdom and you don’t get to see the next Bond movie. BIG mistake. The Rock looks a bit like a zombie. But what are people who follow blindly other than zombies?
Ha! Yes the rock does look a bit zombie-like. He looks like he’s about ready to receive a great big goat sandwich!
Very cool! )))))))
Oh I’m glad you liked it, Kiddy! Thanks for coming by!
funny!
Thanks! And thank you for dropping by!:D