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John the Apostle was the son of Zebedee and the younger brother of James the Great. According to church tradition, their mother was Salome. [22] [23] Also according to some traditions, Salome was the sister of Mary, Jesus' mother, [23] [24] making Salome Jesus' aunt, and her sons John the Apostle and James were Jesus' cousins. [25]
John of Patmos (also called John the Revelator, John the Divine, John the Theologian; Ancient Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Θεολόγος, romanized: Iōannēs ho Theologos) is the name traditionally given to the author of the Book of Revelation. Revelation 1:9 states that John was on Patmos, [1] an Aegean island off the coast of Roman Asia ...
John the Evangelist[a] (c. 8 AD - c. 100 AD) is the name traditionally given to the author of the Gospel of John. Christians have traditionally identified him with John the Apostle, John of Patmos, and John the Presbyter, [2] although there is no consensus on how many of these may actually be the same individual. [3]
The brothers of Jesus or the adelphoi (Greek: ἀδελφοί, translit. adelphoí, lit. "of the same womb") [1][2][3][Notes 1] are named in the New Testament as James, Joses (a form of Joseph), Simon, Jude, [4] and unnamed sisters are mentioned in Mark and Matthew. [5] They may have been: (1) sons of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Joseph; (2 ...
John Eliot (c.1604 – 21 May 1690) was a Puritan missionary to the American Indians who some called "the apostle to the Indians" [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] and the founder of Roxbury Latin School in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1645. In 1660 he completed the enormous task of translating the Eliot Indian Bible into the Massachusett Indian language ...
James the Great[ a ] (Koinē Greek: Ἰάκωβος, romanized: Iákōbos; Aramaic: ܝܥܩܘܒ, romanized: Yaʿqōḇ; died AD 44) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. According to the New Testament, he was the second of the apostles to die (after Judas Iscariot), and the first to be martyred. [ 1 ] Saint James is the patron saint of Spain ...
Saint Peter[ note 1 ] (died AD 64–68), [ 1 ] also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, [ 6 ] was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ and one of the first leaders of the early Christian Church. He appears repeatedly and prominently in all four New Testament gospels as well as the Acts of the Apostles.
For example, F.P. Dutripon's Latin Bible concordance (Paris 1838) identified 10 people named Joannes (John) in the Bible, 5 of whom featured in the New Testament: [ note 1 ] John the Baptist. John the Apostle, son of Zebedee, whom Dutripon equated with John the Evangelist, John of Patmos, John the Presbyter, the Beloved Disciple and John of ...