A name remembered

Bartholomew

Named among the Twelve. His identification with Nathanael is traditional, rather than explicitly stated in the New Testament.

Let the text introduce them.

Begin with Matthew 10; Luke 6. Notice what the passage tells you, what it leaves unsaid, and what you may have brought to it from other retellings.

What question would you bring to this person’s story? Read slowly enough to notice a detail you have passed over before.

Sources: Matthew 10; Luke 6. Images are imagined reconstructions. Where the biblical text gives few details, we preserve that uncertainty.