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CHRISTIAN APOSTLE JOHN
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God
Jesus' first act was to be baptized by John the Baptist,
a charismatic and ascetic figure who called people to
repentance and baptized those who responded. This event
marked the beginning of Jesus' ministry. Some have also
theorized it was at that moment the human Jesus became
divine.John was the younger brother of James the
greater whom Jesus called the "boanerges" - sons of
thunder - because of their fiery temperaments. Together with
his brother James, as well as St. Peter, he formed part of
the inner circle whom Christ chose to be with him on the
momentous occasions of His Transfiguration and His Agony in
the Gardens of Gethsemane. He is also known as St. John
the Divine and St. John the Evangelist.
He was the author of The Three Letters, The Fourth Gospel
and The Revelation to John in the New Testament.
Tradition has always identified St. John, the "Beloved
Apostle" with the unnamed "disciple whom Jesus loved", who
leaned on his master's breast at the Last Supper, to whom
Jesus confided the care of his mother, who ran before St.
Peter to the tomb on the morning of the Resurrection, and,
seeing it empty, believed; and who first recognized the
risen Lord by the Sea of Tiberius.
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