“That there might be some good men to go about with Him, teaching the people, Jesus Christ chose twelve poor men to be His companions. These twelve are call the Apostles or Disciples, and He chose them from among poor men, in order that the poor might know–always after that, in all years to come–that Heaven was made for them as well as for the rich, and that God makes no difference between those who wear good clothes and those who go barefoot and in rags.”
Charles Dickens in The Book of Jesus: Treasury of the Greatest Stories and Writings about Christ ed. Calvin Miller (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005)248.