It was a small group of eleven men whom Jesus commissioned to carry on his work, and bring the gospel to the whole world. They were not distinguished; they were not well-educated; they had no influential backers. In their own nation they were nobodies and, in any case, their own nation was a mere secondclass province on the eastern extremity of the Roman map. If they had stopped to weigh up the possibilities of succeeding in their mission, even granted their conviction that Jesus was alive and that his Spirit went with them to equip them for their task, their hearts must surely have sunk, so heavily were the odds weighted against them. How could they possibly succeed? And yet they did.
Michael Green, Evangelism in the Early Church, p13
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