4 others in the registry answer to the name John. Every John in the Bible
- verses
- 5
- first named
- Matthew 16:17
- last named
- Matthew 16:17
- period
- the New Testament
- role
- Man
Description
Who was John?
John, also referred to as Jonah, is mentioned in the New Testament as the father of Simon Peter, one of the twelve apostles and a prominent figure in the early Church. In the Gospel of John, Jesus addresses Peter as "Simon, son of John" on several occasions (Jhn.21.15,16,17). This patronymic identifier was common in Jewish culture and served to distinguish individuals with the same name.
In Jhn.1.42, when Andrew brings his brother Simon to Jesus, Jesus gives Simon the name "Cephas" (which means "Peter" or "rock"). Here, Simon is also identified as the son of John. Similarly, in Mat.16.17, when Peter declares Jesus to be the Christ, the Son of the living God, Jesus responds by calling him "Simon Bar-Jonah," using the Aramaic equivalent of "son of Jonah."
These references provide insight into Peter's family background but do not offer any additional details about his father, John or Jonah. The use of both names has led some scholars to suggest that John may have been a bilingual name, with Jonah being the Hebrew form and John the Greek form. However, the exact reason for the variation is not explicitly stated in the biblical text.
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Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
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- Andrewregistry, no verse
- PeterregistryMatthew 16:17
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A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
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