A close friend of Jesus
St John the Evangelist was the son of Zebedee and Salome and they lived on the Galilean shores. St John’s much older brother was St James. In St Mark’s Gospel (Mark 1:20) there is a reference to “hired men” and St John’s “home” (John 19:27) which implies that Salome and her children were not poor.
When John the Baptist preached in the wilderness of Jordan, it is thought that the two disciples who “looked on Jesus as he walked” (John 1:35), when the Baptist cried: “Behold the Lamb of God!” were Andrew and John.
