A Brief Biography of the Apostle John, Part 4 (TMF:2955)
Friday, September 04, 2026
Peace to Live By: A Brief Biography of the Apostle John, Part 4 (TMF:2955) - Daniel Litton
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What else can be noted as pertains to John? As already stated, he had an older brother named James. We know James was the older one because, when the two of them are mentioned together in the Scriptures, James is always listed first, which, in Jewish custom, would note he is the older brother. Now this James we find was martyred in the early persecution of the Christian church in Acts 12, not too long after Jesus returned to Heaven. John is probably in the lower end of age of all Jesus’ disciples (see John 13:28). Anyway, their father’s name was Zebedee. Their mother’s name was Salome, who may have in fact been Mary’s (the mother of Jesus) sister. That would mean, if that were the case, that Jesus and John were cousins. We perhaps understand this from John 19:25, where it says, “standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.”