john the baptist. he is six months older that jesus
John was not the oldest of the disciples. It is believed that Peter was the oldest among the twelve disciples of Jesus.
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His oldest sons name was John and his nickname was tiny dick.
John was a cousin of Jesus.
john is much older than jesus. john is the baptizer while jesus is the savior
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The woman concerned was Mary the mother of Jesus. When Jesus said 'Woman behold your son' Jesus was not referring to himself as the woman's son' In the next part of the account Jesus says to the disciple who was standing by Mary, "behold, your mother' referring to the Mary. This passage comes from John's gospel, and it is generally believed that John refers to himself throughout this gospel as 'the disciple whom Jesus loved'. As we are told that the disciple at the cross is this very same disciple, we can be assured that it was John who stood with Mary. We know that John was this disciple as there are parallel accounts of incidents in the other gospels whete Jesus is with Peter, James and John - but in John's gospel the same accounts use the phrase: Peter, James and "the disciple whom Jesus loved"...suggesting that John shows a little modesty in his own account. In Jewish law the oldest son was responsible for looking after a widowed mother. In Jesus' case, being the oldest son of Mary, who by that time was widowed, it was his responsibility to arrange care for her. When Jesus said 'Woman, behold your son" and to John "behold your mother" he was passing on the responsibility, after his death, of looking after Mary, to the only disciple who stuck with him - John. We are then told that John took Mary into his own home and looked after her as his own mother.
Jesus and John the Baptist were cousins, and John was a prophet who baptized Jesus. John recognized Jesus as the Messiah and played a significant role in preparing the way for Jesus' ministry.
There is nothing in scripture that says anything about this. The only reference to John with Mary the mother of Jesus at the cross was Jesus' plea to John. Jesus, dying on the cross, turned to John (the 'disciple whom Jesus loved' i.e. his best friend) to ask him to look after Mary as he would his own mother. It would have been the duty of Jesus, being the oldest son of Mary, to provide for her in this way in Jewish law. Similarly he asked Mary to accept John as her new 'son' who would look after her. We are told that from that moment John took Mary into his own home.
Yes, John was a disciple of Jesus.
No, John the Baptist was not Jesus' brother. John the Baptist was a cousin of Jesus, as his mother Elizabeth was a relative of Mary, the mother of Jesus.
Jesus and John the Baptist were cousins.