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Jan 21, 2022 · However, according to the tradition, John was miraculously delivered from death. The authorities then sentenced John to slave labor in the mines of Patmos. On this island in the southern part of the Aegean Sea, John had a vision of Jesus Christ and wrote the prophetic book of Revelation.
As the last living person who was directly instructed during Jesus' earthly ministry, John lived a long life and died close to 100 A.D. Evidence suggests the last apostle ended his days in the Asia Minor city of Ephesus.
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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...
Sep 1, 2016 · Rather than see a man be brutally boiled to death, the crowd witnessed a miracle: John stood in the oil completely unharmed! Some versions of the story say that many or even all of the spectators converted because of what they saw.
Revelation 1:9-11. John was a prisoner on Patmos because he was preaching about Jesus and that He, Jesus, had been raised from the dead. John had the visions described in Revelation about AD95. The Island of Patmos is a volcanic, treeless, rocky island about 9km by 50km or 6 by 30 miles.
Jun 23, 2021 · Some have attributed to Papias the idea that John died a martyr's death around the same time as his brother James (died ~AD 42-44). This argument is untenable. Although the writings of Papias have been lost, Irenaeus had read Papias and Irenaeus clearly knew that John did not die in the 40s.
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Aug 20, 2021 · His exile on Patmos easily could have been a death sentence. When Emperor Domitian, who had exiled him to Patmos, had died, John was brought back to Ephesus, where he was confined for two years. It is written that he was compelled to drink poison but was unharmed, and finally died in peace.
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