John, Son of Zebedee

In Mark’s Gospel

• Part of the inner circle: raising of Jairus's daughter (Mark 5:37), the Transfiguration (Mark 9:2-8), Gethsemane

  Mark 14:33

• Reported a man casting out demons in Jesus's name: "we tried to stop him, because he was not following us" — Jesus corrected him

  Mark 9:38-40

• With James, asked for seats of honor

  Mark 10:35-40

Who they were

• ✦Transformed by love — from "Son of Thunder" (Mark 3:17) to the apostle who wrote "God is love" (1 John 4:8)
• ✦Intimate with Jesus — closest to him at the table and the cross (John 13:23; 19:26)
• ✦Bold in witness — "we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard" (Acts 4:20)

Read about them

Faces of Faith

“Surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses” — Hebrews 12:1

A keepsake of John, Son of Zebedee’s story — the portrait on the front, the key moments on the back.