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James the Just, or a variation of James, brother of the Lord ( Latin: Iacobus from Hebrew: יעקב, Ya'aqov and Greek: Ἰάκωβος, Iákōbos, can also be Anglicized as "Jacob"), was a brother of Jesus, according to the New Testament. He was the first leader of the Jerusalem Church of the Apostolic Age. Traditionally, it is believed he was ...
James Ossuary. The James ossuary was on display at the Royal Ontario Museum from November 15, 2002, to January 5, 2003. The James Ossuary is a 1st-century limestone box that was used for containing the bones of the dead. An Aramaic inscription meaning "Jacob (James), son of Joseph, brother of Yeshua" is cut into one side of the box.
Josephus on Jesus. The first-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus provides external information on some people and events found in the New Testament. [1] The extant manuscripts of Josephus' book Antiquities of the Jews, written around AD 93–94, contain two references to Jesus of Nazareth and one reference to John the Baptist. [2]
The discovery of the coffin first made headlines in 2002. It's called an ossuary and the inscription reads: "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus." Many historians believe the artifact is a fake ...
The brothers of Jesus or the adelphoi ( Greek: ἀδελφοί, translit. adelphoí, lit. "of the same womb") [1] [Notes 1] are named in the New Testament as James, Joses (a form of Joseph), Simon, Jude, [2] and unnamed sisters are mentioned in Mark and Matthew. [3] They may have been: (1) the sons of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Joseph, (2 ...
Saint Simon the Zealot with his attribute of a saw. The name Simon occurs in all of the Synoptic Gospels and the Book of Acts each time there is a list of apostles, without further details: Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon ...
Mark the Evangelist is the earliest known source in the Bible to mention "James, son of Alphaeus" as one of the twelve Apostles. Mark the Evangelist mentions a "James, son of Alphaeus" only once and this is in his list of the 12 Apostles ( Mark 3, ( Mark 3:16–19 )). At the beginning of Jesus ' ministry he first calls Peter and his brother ...
James was the son of Zebedee and Salome. Salome was a sister of Mary (mother of Jesus) which made James the Great a cousin of Jesus. James is styled "the Greater" to distinguish him from the Apostle James "the Less," with "greater" meaning older or taller, rather than more important. James the Great was the brother of John the Apostle.