St. John Research Paper

I chose Saint John the Evangelist as my Confirmation patron saint. I chose him because of his bravery, his love of God, and his revelation by God. I want to always stay by Jesus’s side like he did. I want to be willing to die to be with God. St. John was known as the beloved apostle, so I want to be loved by God as well, and hope that I can love God. St. John was given the revelation of the symbolic signs of the apocalypse. Like him, I want to be trusted with being the bearer of the word of God.
John’s early life is mostly unknown. We know that he was born around A.D. 3 to Zebedee and Salome. He had an older brother, James, and were together known as the “Sons of Thunder.” They worked in their father’s business as fishers and had some education and were literate. John was a very devout and dedicated Jew and, with James, was a follower of St. John the Baptist. When he was in his mid-twenties, John left John the Baptist to follow Jesus when John the Baptist, after seeing
John is only mentioned a few times after Pentecost and traveled the least of the apostles. This is most likely because he had to remain in Jerusalem to take care of Mary, as well as his parents. However, according to St. Paul, John was one of the main “pillars” of the Church, along with James and Peter. John stayed in Jerusalem until most likely sometime in the A.D. 60s when the martyrdom of his brother, James, took place. He went to Rome and met Peter, whom he had not met in a long time. Unfortunately, he almost died there, when he was thrown into a vat of hot oil, but miraculously was unharmed. At some point, John was imprisoned and forced to work in the mines but was eventually freed after Nerva became Rome’s new emperor. John then went to Ephesus, an ancient city in modern day Turkey, where he assumed the responsibility of all the Churches of Asia after St. Paul died around A.D. 66 or 67. John made this his final home, but sadly, was exiled to an island when Domitian became the new