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Feb 10, 2018 · As for John stating (twice, v.31 and v.33) that he did not known Jesus (the Greek actually says had not known, not did not know), the explanation offered in antiquity was that John wanted to emphasize that he was not proclaiming Jesus solely because he was a blood relative. Byzantine commentator John Chrysostom (349-407) wrote:
Dec 16, 2012 · John obviously knew something about Jesus, or he would not have been hesitant to baptize Him. To “not know” Jesus then, likely had much more to do with not knowing him “officially, as the Messiah” (Vincent, 1997), than anything else. John seemed to believe that Jesus was the Messiah already, but, as J.W. McGarvey noted, “he did not ...
John was not saying that he did not recognize Jesus as the Messiah in the way that we do not perceive or recognize a person's identity, like an old acquaintance or relative, but instead that Jesus had received recognition not from him (John), but from heaven that he (Jesus) was the Christ.
- John The Apostle
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- John The Martyr
We get the vast majority of our information about John from the pages of the four gospels. We know that John was the younger brother of James and the son of Zebedee (Mark 10:35; Luke 5:10). Though not directly stated, we know that John was called the beloved disciple, or “the disciple whom Jesus loved” (John 21:20-24). His occupation was as a fishe...
John wrote 5 books in the New Testament. He wrote The Gospel According to John, First, Second and Third John, and he was the penman of the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. All of his books were written later in life and after all the other books in the Bible were recorded. We don’t know the exact time or order of the books having been writte...
We know little about John’s later life and death from the Bible. The most insightful bit of information comes from John 21 when the risen Christ was talking to Peterabout Peter’s death. After Jesus told Peter that he would not live long Peter asked about John’s death. Jesus replied that if John lived until Christ’s return, that was not Peter’s conc...
Feb 6, 2019 · The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, ‘We have found the Messiah’ (that is, the Christ). And he brought him to Jesus.” —John 1:35–42a. In any case, we know that John was one of the closest followers of John the Baptist’s cousin (Jesus). Did the disciple John write the Gospel of John?
And although John was a prophet, he did not perform any miraculous signs: 41 Many came to him and began to say, “John performed no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true!” (John 10:41) It is hard for me to imagine, but John did not even know that Jesus was the promised Messiah until he baptized Him:
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Jan 4, 2022 · The disciple whom Jesus loved self-identifies as the author of the gospel (John 21:24), whom most scholars believe to be the apostle John, the son of Zebedee and brother of James. First, only the Gospel of John mentions the “disciple whom Jesus loved.”. Second, John 21:2 lets us know who was fishing with Peter: “Simon Peter, Thomas ...
