Jesus and James after the Resurrection
It is said that Christ Jesus had a brother who eventually led Judaists in Jersalem after the resurrection of Christ.
According to Robert Funk, the Gospel of Mark shows that Jesus' mother and brothers were at first sceptical of Jesus' ministry but later became part of the Christian movement.[13][page needed] The biblical citation that Saint James ("the Lord's brother") presided over the Jerusalem church after the apostles dispersed[14] is built on to presume that other kinsmen of Jesus' also exercised some leadership among neighbouring Christian communities. Jewish Christian communities were expelled from Jerusalem by the Romans after the Bar Kochba revolt with the founding of Aelia Capitolina (c. 135).[14] Traditionally it is believed the Jerusalem Christians waited out the Jewish–Roman wars (66–135) in Pella in the Decapolis. The Jerusalem Sanhedrin relocated to Jamnia sometime c. 70.But James or Jacob was not a follower of his brother Christ Jesus from the beginning. Something changed James' mind to accept the teaching by Christ.
At an earlier stage James[15] is said to have been granted a special appearance by the resurrected Jesus.[16] When Saint Peter, a leader of the church in Jerusalem left, it was James who became the principal authority and was held in high regard by the Jewish Christians.[17] Hegesippus reports that he was executed by the Sanhedrin in 62.[17]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_of_Jesus
While James grew up in the same house with Jesus in Nazareth, he was miles apart from Jesus' thinking for the early part of his life.
James did not grow up a believer (John:7:5). Though Jesus and James had the same mother, Jesus was the son not of Joseph, as James was, but of God the Father Himself—a fact that wouldn't fully sink into James'mind for years. It wasn't until Jesus' resurrection and His appearance to James and the disciples that James finally really understood who his half brother was.It is said that faithful followers of Christ Jesus saw in person Christ Himself with their eyes three days or more after the resurrection of Christ.
http://www.ucg.org/christian-living/profiles-faith-james-half-brother-jesus
But it is not depicted in the Bible so drastically as the case of St. Paul. The encounter of St. Paul with the holy spirit of Christ Jesus on his way to Damascus is so vividly recited. But, the appearance of Christ Jesus to his honest followers after the resurrection is told rather in a touch of mystery.
In my interpretation, one of mysterious figures Christ Jesus met in a high mountain was actually James.
Mar 9:2 And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.And, also in my interpretation, the angel who met with some Jesus' disciples at the entrance of the tomb of Jesus was actually James.
Mar 9:3 And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.
Mar 9:4 And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus.
Mar 16:3 And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?Mar 16:4 And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.Mar 16:5 And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.Mar 16:6 And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.Mar 16:7 But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.Christ Jesus told His brother James to come and help Him resurrect in the tomb after the crucifixion, in my interpretation.
But strangely, Christ Jesus would not present Himself openly to Roman and Judaist authorities so as to overwhelm them with His power proven by the resurrection. Rather mysteriously, Christ Jesus made an appearance only to some of His disciples and followers.
Mar 16:12 After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country.Mar 16:13 And they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them.Mar 16:14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.Specifically what was "another form" stated in Mar 16:12? Why would not Christ Jesus act and preach in the same manner as He had done before the crucifixion?
The key to an answer to this question is in James. He is the only person who knew what happened to Christ Jesus after the resurrection, since James, looking like an angel, helped Christ Jesus get out of the tomb. However, all we know is that James became the leader of the so-called Judaist Christians in Jerusalem while St. Paul was preaching to gentiles outside Palestine.
In the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas, Jesus names James his successor: "The disciples said to Jesus, 'We know that you will depart from us. Who will be our leader?' Jesus said to them, "Where you are, you are to go to James the Just, for whose sake heaven and earth came into existence.'"[5]
Apart from a handful of references in the synoptic Gospels, the main sources for his life are the Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline epistles, the historian Josephus, Eusebius and St. Jerome who also quote the early Christian chronicler Hegesippus and Epiphanus.[6] The Epistle of James in the New Testament is traditionally attributed to him, and he is a principal author of the Apostolic Decree of Acts 15. In the extant lists of Hippolytus of Rome,[7] Dorotheus of Tyre, the Chronicon Paschale, and Dimitry of Rostov, he is the first of the Seventy Apostles, though some sources, such as the Catholic Encyclopedia,[8] state that "these lists are unfortunately worthless".Again in my interpretation, Christ Jesus helped St. Paul, St. Peter, and other disciples He sent to the world to preach the Gospel. That is why Christianity prevailed. It was not power and merit of St. Paul, St. Peter, and other disciples that made Christianity establish itself among gentiles and Romans. Christ Jesus must have acted secretly behind the scene while St. Paul, St. Peter, and other disciples were making their best as human beings. For example, Christ Jesus must have appeared to some foreigners to strengthen their belief after they listened to St. Paul, St. Peter, and other disciples preaching the Gospel in their way. But these incidents were not recorded in any books. Or simply a rumor that Christ Jesus appeared to some people who came to believe what St. Paul and others preached might spread. And there must have a spate of such rumors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_the_Just
Joh 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
However, in Jerusalem only James was in charge. A brother of Christ Jesus, so was anything else needed among Judaists to support Judaist Christians? Christ Jesus must have been busy in Rome and other places to promote faith in God after the resurrection.
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Joh 4:29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?