Was Jesus Christ and John lovers?

Answer 1

Wow, and they didn't edit this goofy queston.

AnswerIf you mean 'did they love each other?' then the answer is a resounding 'yes'... but not as you think.

Sadly, this question is typical of those who read in The Bible that John was the 'disciple whom Jesus loved', and who put 2 and 2 together and formulate a gay realtionship from it. This is just one of many hundreds of misconceptions made by those who do not understand scripture but merely use it to back up their own prejudices.

In English, we have one word for 'love' whereas in the original Greek of the New Testament there are at least five. The type of love that is implied when we say two people are 'lovers' is known in the Greek as 'eros' - sexual love between two people. The sort of love a husband has for his wife or vice versa. It is where we get the word 'erotic' from. This kind of love, eros, however, was not used when referring to Jesus and John.

However, the word that is used in the phrases 'The disciple whom Jesus loved' and 'love one another as I have loved you' is a different word in the Greek. It is the word 'agape' (AHH-ga-pay). There is no real equivalent for this word in English. It means a deep, unconditional, caring, all-embracing, platonic, non-sexual love. It was this love that John had for Jesus, and Jesus had for John and the same sort of love that Jesus calls Christians to love ones neighbour as we would love ourselves.