Are John the Baptist and John Mark and and John the evangelist related to Jesus?

Answer 1

There are 4 people called John in the New Testament:

• -John the son of Zebedee

• -John the Baptist

• -John surnamed Mark

• John a kinsman of Annas the High priest.

This last "John" is definitely not related to Jesus and can safely be disregarded, but what about the other 3?.

(1)

Were James and John - both the sons of Zebedee - related to Jesus ?

(This John was the Apostle; that is, John the evangelist and writer of John's Gospel. )

Yes, they were related.

Salome [see Mar 15:40 KJV] was 'the mother of Zebedee's children' [see Mat 27:55-56 KJV ]. Zebedee's children were James and John [see Matt 4:21 KJV ] . This means Salome was Jesus' mother's sister of John 19:25.

Mat 4:21 KJV And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.

That is, Salome was Jesus' Aunt, and sothis would make James and John [that is, the evangelist] cousins of Jesus.

(2)

Was John the Baptist related to Jesus?

Mary the mother of Jesus, and Elisabeth the mother of John the Baptist, were cousins:-

Luk 1:24 And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, ...

Luk 1:26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,

Luk 1:27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name wasMary.

Luk 1:28 And the angel ... said, ....

Luk 1:30 ...., Fear not, Mary: ...

Luk 1:31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.

Luk 1:36 And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.

This means that John the Baptist was a 2nd cousin to Jesus.

(3)

Was John surnamed Mark related to Jesus?

Mark was the cousin of Barnabus:-

Col 4:10 Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (regarding whom you received commandments; if he comes to you, receive him),

[Or, to put it another way, Barnabus was Mark's uncle.]

Tradition has it that both Mary the mother of Jesus and Barnabus were twins, and that Mary was born first. This means Barnabus was the brother of Mary, and therefore that he was uncle to Mary's child Jesus.

John Mark was the cousin of Barnabus who was the uncle of Jesus, so this means John Mark and Jesus were cousins once removed.

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