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Generally listed as the youngest apostle, he was the son of Zebedee and Salome. His brother James was another of the Twelve Apostles. The Church Fathers identify him as John the Evangelist , John of Patmos , John the Elder , and the Beloved Disciple , and testify that he outlived the remaining apostles and was the only one to die of natural causes, although modern scholars are divided on the veracity of these claims.

John the Apostle is traditionally held to be the author of the Gospel of John , and many Christian denominations believe that he authored several other books of the New Testament the three Johannine epistles and the Book of Revelation , together with the Gospel of John, are called the Johannine works , depending on whether he is distinguished from, or identified with, John the Evangelist, John the Elder, and John of Patmos.

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Although the authorship of the Johannine works has traditionally been attributed to John the Apostle, [ 15 ] only a minority of contemporary scholars believe he wrote the gospel, [ 16 ] and most conclude that he wrote none of them. John the Apostle was born into a family of Jewish fishermen on the Sea of Galilee. He was the son of Zebedee and the younger brother of James the Great.

According to church tradition, their mother was Salome. John the Apostle is traditionally believed to be one of two disciples the other being Andrew recounted in John —39 , who upon hearing the Baptist point out Jesus as the "Lamb of God", followed Jesus and spent the day with him, thus becoming the first two disciples called by Jesus. On this basis some traditions believe that John was first a disciple of John the Baptist , even though he is not named in this episode.

Jesus then called Peter , Andrew and the two sons of Zebedee to follow him. James and John are listed among the Twelve Apostles. Jesus referred to the pair as "Boanerges" translated "sons of thunder". John is traditionally believed to have lived on for more than fifty years after the martyrdom of his brother James, who became the first Apostle to die a martyr's death in AD John is always mentioned in the group of the first four apostles in the Gospels and in the Book of Acts , listed either second, [ 30 ] third [ 31 ] or fourth.

John, along with his brother James and Peter , formed an informal triumvirate among the Twelve Apostles in the Gospels.