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Adeney, W. F., in Men of the New Testament: Matthew to Timothy (1905), 241.
Carpenter, W. B., The Wisdom of James the Just (1903), 3.
Dale, R. W., The Epistle of James (1895), 1.
Farrar, F. W., The Early Days of Christianity (1891), 265, 280.
McGiffert, A. C, A History of Christianity in the Apostolic Age (1897), 549.
Martyn, H. J., For Christ and the Truth (1898), 175.
Matheson, G., The Representative Men of the New Testament (1905), 227.
Mayor, J. B., The Epistle of St. James (1910), p. i.
Moule, H. C. G., The Secret of the Presence (1900), 202.
Patrick, W., James the Lord's Brother (1906).
Plummer, A., The General Epistles of St. James and St. Jude (Expositor's Bible) (1891), 25.
Smith, H. M., The Epistle of S. James (1914), 16, 38.
Stanley, A. P., Sermons and Essays on the Apostolical Age (1874), 283.
Whyte, A., Bible Characters: Joseph and Mary to James (1900), 237.
Dictionary of the Apostolic Church, i. (1915) 628 (W. Montgomery).
Dictionary of the Bible, ii. (1899) 542 (J. B. Mayor).
Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels, i. (1906) 846 (H. W. Fulford).
Within a few weeks after His resurrection, the brethren of Jesus were gathered with His followers in Jerusalem, and evidently belonged to the company of His disciples. In the interval, therefore, they must have become convinced of their Brother's Messiahship. When and in what circumstances their conversion took place, we are not told; but we have a hint of the occasion that led to it, at least in the case of James. In his First Epistle to the Corinthians, St. Paul mentions an appearance of the risen Jesus to James, and separates it from His appearances to Peter, to the Twelve, and to the five hundred brethren, in such a way as to imply that it took place later than the others. This fact at once suggests the conclusion that James was not a disciple at the time of those earlier manifestations, but became such as a result of his own vision of the risen Lord.