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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.

John (Apostle living at the time of the New Testament)

Zebedee's son and James's younger brother, a fisherman, and with Peter and James one of the three who saw what the rest did not, the transfiguration and Gethsemane among it. From the cross Jesus gave him his mother Mary to look after. Tradition makes him the disciple Jesus loved and credits him with the fourth Gospel, three letters, and Revelation, written in exile on Patmos.

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Zebedee's son and James's younger brother, a fisherman, and with Peter and James one of the three who saw what the rest did not, the transfiguration and Gethsemane among it. From the cross Jesus gave him his mother Mary to look after. Tradition makes him the disciple Jesus loved and credits him with the fourth Gospel, three letters, and Revelation, written in exile on Patmos.

The word

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Where it appears
  • Matthew 4:21
  • Matthew 10:2
  • Matthew 17:1
  • Mark 1:19
  • Mark 1:29
  • Mark 3:17
  • Mark 5:37
  • Mark 9:2
  • Mark 9:38
  • Mark 10:35
  • Mark 10:41
  • Mark 13:3
  • Mark 14:33
  • Luke 5:10
  • Luke 6:14
  • Luke 8:51
  • Luke 9:28
  • Luke 9:49
  • Luke 9:54
  • Luke 22:8
  • Acts 1:13
  • Acts 3:1
  • Acts 3:3
  • Acts 3:4
  • Acts 3:11
  • Acts 4:13
  • Acts 4:19
  • Acts 8:14
  • Acts 12:2
  • Galatians 2:9
  • Revelation 1:1
  • Revelation 1:4
  • Revelation 1:9
  • Revelation 22:8

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