John the Apostle

Giovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754 · Public domainGiovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754

Apostled. c. 100

Who

Son of Zebedee, the disciple whom Jesus loved, to whom he gave his mother from the cross (John 19:26–27). The Fathers hold that he lived to old age at Ephesus and wrote the fourth Gospel, three letters and the Apocalypse there; Irenaeus knew Polycarp, who had sat at his feet (Against Heresies III.3.4), and Papias of Hierapolis was called his hearer.

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In the succession →

Disciples: Ignatius of Antiochd. c. 107
Martyrium Ignatii and the Syriac Chronicle of Edessa (tradition)
Papiasc. 60–130
Irenaeus, Against Heresies V.33.4 (a hearer of John and companion of Polycarp); doubted by Eusebius, Church History III.39 (disputed)
Polycarpc. 69–155
Irenaeus, Against Heresies III.3.4; Letter to Florinus (Eusebius, Church History V.20); Tertullian, Prescription 32

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