Christianity
John the Apostle
The 'beloved disciple'; traditional author of the fourth Gospel, three epistles, and Revelation. Exiled to Patmos; traditional final home in Ephesus.
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- What surprised you about how this figure appears across traditions?
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- What virtue or struggle most defines them, in your reading?
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