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| JAMES & JOHN� ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES {Where Document name is cited first, it is Quoted} |
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| [1]������ FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, BK. 18, 2:2 - After Coponius, came Annius Rufus...under whom died Caesar....Joseph Caiaphus was made his successor...When Gratus had done those things...Pontius Pilate came as his successor. | |||||||||||||||
| [2]������ THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 26:3 ; JOHN 18:13; 15-16 [NIV] - The chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest whose name was Caiaphas....Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year....Simon Peter and another disciple were following Jesus.� Because this disciple was known to the high priest, he went with Jesus into the high priest's courtyard. | |||||||||||||||
| [3]������ All statements by Jesus not in the Bible are in italics, are used only to express what is strongly inferred, and used sparingly. | |||||||||||||||
| [4]������ THE BIBLE, NUMBERS 4:2-3 - Levites...count all the men from thirty to fifty years of age who come to serve in the work in the Tent of Meeting [temple]. | |||||||||||||||
| [5]������ THE BIBLE, DANIEL 9:25 [PREDICTED ABOUT 530 BC] - Know and understand this:� From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem [after return from Babylonian exile] until the Anointed One [priest-king], the ruler, comes, there will be seven "sevens" and sixty-two "sevens."� [A "seven" is a week of years or 49 years.� So 69 X 7 = 483 years.] | |||||||||||||||
| [6]������ THE BIBLE, MICAH 5:2 [PREDICTED ABOUT 700 BC] - But you, Bethlehem, Ephrathat, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from old, from ancient times. | |||||||||||||||
| [7]������ SEE VOLUME I, ANGELS' SONG, "The King, the Scholars and the Boy" | |||||||||||||||
| [8]������ SEE VOLUME II, DREAM MAKER, "God Eyes" | |||||||||||||||
| [9]������ THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 4:13 - He [Jesus] moved from his hometown, Nazareth, to the lakeside village Capernaum, nestled at the base of the Zelbulun and Naphtali hills. | |||||||||||||||
| [10]����� SEE VOLUME II, DREAM MAKER, "The Hand of God" | |||||||||||||||
| [11]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 3:13, 17 - He settled on twelve, and designated them apostles....James, son of Zebedee, John, brother of James (Jesus nicknamed the Zebedee brothers Boanerges, meaning "Sons of Thunder"). | |||||||||||||||
| [12]����� SEE VOLUME IV, FOLK HERO, "Desperation Point" | |||||||||||||||
| [13]����� SEE VOLUME III, HEARTS AFIRE, "Unlikely Crew" | |||||||||||||||
| [14]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 10:1 [NIV] - He called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out evil spirits and to heal every disease and sickness. | |||||||||||||||
| [15]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 9:49 - John spoke up, "Master, we saw a man using your name to expel demons and we stopped him because he wasn't of our group." | |||||||||||||||
| [16]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 9:50 - Jesus said, "Don't stop him.� If he's not an enemy, he's an ally." | |||||||||||||||
| [17]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 9:51-52 - When it came close to the time for his Ascension, he gathered up his courage and steeled himself for the journey to Jerusalem.� He sent messengers on ahead.� They came to a Samaritan village to make arrangements for his hospitality. | |||||||||||||||
| [18]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 9:53 - But when the Samaritans learned that his destination was Jerusalem, they refused hospitality. | |||||||||||||||
| [19]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 9:54 - When the disciples James and John learned of it, they said, "Master, do you want us top call a bolt of lightning down out of the sky and incinerate them?" | |||||||||||||||
| [20]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 9:55 - Jesus turned on them:� "Of course not!"� And they traveled on to another village. | |||||||||||||||
| [21]����� Even when Jesus ascended into heaven, his own apostles did not understand that the kingdom of God was not going to be set up in Jerusalem and at any earthly headquarters.� THE BIBLE, ACTS 1:6 - When they were together for the last time they asked, "Master, are you going to restore the kingdom to Israel now?� Is this the time?"� Jesus had said in THE BIBLE, LUKE 17:21b [NIV] - "The kingdom of God is within you." | |||||||||||||||
| [22]����� SEE VOLUME I, ANGELS' SONG, "Sister, Aunt, Forever Friend" | |||||||||||||||
| [23]����� SEE VOLUME VI, PROMISE KEEPER, "Day Extraordinaire" | |||||||||||||||
| [24]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 13:23 - One of the disciples, the one Jesus loved dearly, was reclining against him, his head on his shoulder.� [NOTE: Out of modesty, the author of this book of John does not say his own name.� They reclined on cushions around a table, everyone on one side facing one direction and everyone on the other side facing the other direction.] | |||||||||||||||
| [25]����� SEE VOLUME VI, PROMISE KEEPER, "Citadel of Shadows," "Power in the �Breaking" and VOLUME VII, STAR SONG, "Torch Flight" and "Victorious Dying" | |||||||||||||||
| [26]����� SEE VOLUME VIII, COME FLY WITH ME, "Cloud Burst" | |||||||||||||||
| [27]����� WILLIAM STEUART MC BIRNIE, THE SEARCH FOR THE TWELVE APOSTLES. | |||||||||||||||
| [28]����� EUSEBIUS' ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, Ch. 9 - Of this James, Clement [a friend of Peter and Paul] adds in the seventh book of his Institutions, evidently recording it according to the tradition...the man who led him to the judgment seat, seeing him bearing his testimony to the faith, and moved by the fact, confessed himself a Christian.� Both therefore were led away to die....then both were beheaded at the same time. | |||||||||||||||
| [29]����� THE BIBLE, ACTS 12:1-2 [NIV] - It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them.� He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword. | |||||||||||||||
| [30]����� THE BIBLE, GALATIANS 2:9 - James, Peter, and John - the pillars of the church.... | |||||||||||||||
| [31]����� FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, WARS OF THE JEWS, Bk. 6; 3:3-5; 4:1-8; 51-2; 9:3 - Now, round about the altar lay dead bodies heaped one upon another; as at the steps going up to it ran a great quantity of their blood, whither also the dead bodies that were slain above fell down....thus was the holy house burned down.... | |||||||||||||||
| The flame was also carried a long way, and made an echo....terrible noise....[Jews] throw themselves into the fire and were burnt together with the holy house...Now the number of those that were carried captive...ninety-seven thousand, as was the number of those that perished eleven hundred thousand. | |||||||||||||||
| [32]����� EUSEBIUS' ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, Ch. XXIII - Irenaeus and Clement [a friend of Peter and Paul] said John continued at Ephesus until the time of Tragan.� The next emperor freed him and he returned to Ephesus where he died. | |||||||||||||||
| [33]����� FOXE'S BOOK OF MARTYRS - From Ephesus he was ordered to be sent to Rome where it is affirmed he was cast into a cauldron of boiling oil.� He escaped by miracle without injury.� Domition afterwards banished him to the Isle of Patmos.� Nerva, the successor of Domitian, recalled him. | |||||||||||||||
| [34]����� John wrote one of the four extant lives of Christ, John, three letters to churches, and a fourth one also called the book of Revelation about heaven and hell and surviving persecution. | |||||||||||||||
| [35]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 1, 14 [NIV] - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God....The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. | |||||||||||||||