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Jesus had planned for a quiet missionary campaign of five months' personal work. He did not tell the apostles how long this was to last. They worked from week to week. Early on this first day of the week, just as he was about to announce this to his twelve apostles, Simon Peter, James Zebedee, and Judas Iscariot came to have private converse with him. Taking Jesus aside, Peter made bold to say:  

Jesus had planned for a quiet missionary campaign of five months' personal work. He did not tell the apostles how long this was to last. They worked from week to week. Early on this first day of the week, just as he was about to announce this to his twelve apostles, Simon Peter, James Zebedee, and Judas Iscariot came to have private converse with him.  

 

Taking Jesus aside, Peter made bold to say:  

*"Master, we come at the behest of our associates to inquire whether the time is not now ripe to enter into the kingdom. And will you proclaim the kingdom at Capernaum, or are we to move on to Jerusalem? And when shall we learn, each of us, the positions we are to occupy with you in the establishment of the kingdom --"  

*"Master, we come at the behest of our associates to inquire whether the time is not now ripe to enter into the kingdom. And will you proclaim the kingdom at Capernaum, or are we to move on to Jerusalem? And when shall we learn, each of us, the positions we are to occupy with you in the establishment of the kingdom --"  

Peter would have gone on asking further questions, but Jesus raised an admonitory hand and stopped him. Beckoning the other apostles standing near by to join them, Jesus said:  

Peter would have gone on asking further questions, but Jesus raised an admonitory hand and stopped him. Beckoning the other apostles standing near by to join them, Jesus said:  

This plan of fishing two weeks and going out to do personal work in behalf of the kingdom for two weeks was followed for more than five months, to the end of this year of A.D. 26, and until after the cessation of those special persecutions that had been directed against John's disciples subsequent to his imprisonment.

This plan of fishing two weeks and going out to do personal work in behalf of the kingdom for two weeks was followed for more than five months, to the end of this year of A.D. 26, and until after the cessation of those special persecutions that had been directed against John's disciples subsequent to his imprisonment.

====First Work of The Twelve====  

====First Work of The Twelve====