John

John son of Zebedee was one of the Twelve Apostles, the brother of James, and a fisherman from Galilee. He belonged to the inner circle of disciples with Peter and James, present at the Transfiguration and in Gethsemane. The beloved disciple in the Gospel of John is traditionally identified with John the apostle—the one who reclined next to Jesus at the Last Supper (John 13:23) and to whom Jesus entrusted his mother from the cross (John 19:26–27). He was among the first to see the empty tomb and was a pillar of the Jerusalem church alongside Peter and James (Galatians 2:9). The Johannine literature attributed to him—the Gospel of John, three Epistles, and Revelation—forms a major theological strand of the New Testament, and tradition holds he died in old age at Ephesus, the only apostle not martyred.