A member of the Jewish council Acts Subscribe to our Weekly Updates: Get our latest answers straight to your inbox when you subscribe here. By checking this box, you confirm that you have read and are agreeing to our terms of use regarding the storage of the data submitted through this form. Some of the earliest references to the letters attribute them to the Apostle John, and church tradition has held him as the author ever since.
Church tradition holds that John was the only apostle to die of old age. The rest were martyred for their faith. When Mary died, John went to Ephesus and wrote his three epistles.
Then he was exiled to Patmos for preaching the gospel, where he received the revelation from Christ and wrote the Book of Revelation. Eventually he made it back to Ephesus and died an ordinary death sometime after 98 AD. Tertullian, a Christian writer from the late second and early third century, wrote that before the Romans banished John, they brought him into a coliseum and dunked him in a vat of boiling oil.
When he emerged unharmed, the entire coliseum converted to Christianity. Throughout his later life, John also had some significant students.
Polycarp who eventually became bishop of Smyrna learned from John and then taught Irenaeus. John taught Ignatius of Antioch as well, whom Peter eventually appointed as the bishop of Antioch. And Papias of Hierapolis learned directly from John as well. The Apostle John is a well-known gospel figure. Passages from his writings have become our definition of God 1 John , and others have become so ubiquitous that even many non-Christians know them by heart.
We may never know with absolute certainty how much the Apostle John wrote himself. Is this particular study of the Book of John in audio format kind of like your whiteboard videos? Thank you again for all the work you put into this I am just blown away by the vast amount of wisdom and knowledge and work that it has gone into this by you. Following my last comment. Well, whatever happened, James was important enough for Herod to kill. When that made his subjects happy, he went after Peter, too.
Acts —3. Thank you for the information of John the Apostle. I am curious that why John is always mentioned after Peter in the Book of Acts. Even in the Books of Mathew, Mark and Luke. John is usually mention with other names, especially after Peter and James.
It seems John is rarely mentioned alone. Hard to say and probably not terribly important. Good luck with your class! Who Was John the Apostle? For starters, here are some quick facts about this well-known biblical figure. Who was John? Jesus takes Peter, James, and John up to a mountaintop, where he is transfigured before them. Jesus speaks to Moses and Elijah, and John is one of the only three people to witness his glory Matthew —11, Mark —8, Luke — On the night of his betrayal, in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus takes Peter, James, and John with him to pray, and asks them to keep watch Matthew — The one whom Jesus loved?
It is a popular name in the New Testament, given to five different people with varying levels of importance. Here is a brief list of them, along with a short profile. Son of Zechariah and Elizabeth, he is a relative of Jesus Christ. He preached in the desert and baptized people, including Jesus, in the Jordan river.
Herod beheaded John to placate his wife, because John had condemned their marriage as adulterous. He may have taken the Virgin Mary into his home after Jesus was crucified.
Most identify him with St. Note that each of them required some additional designation to distinguish them from others with the same name. So it is extremely unlikely that the same person wrote all of these books.
The Gospel and letters do not name their author, or authors. But the shared style and terminology indicates that if these books are not by the same author, then they must be by authors who were part of a community that shared certain traditions and emphases. However, J.
According to Eusebius, Papias mentioned his efforts to find out what a variety of key figures, including John the apostle, said using the past tense , and also what Aristion and John the Elder say using the present tense. If this were the case, then the tradition that these works were written by someone named John would be correct, even if that person was not John the apostle. James F. McGrath, "Which John?
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