Jesus's BFFs - The Naked Archaeologist 222 - The Beloved Disciple 

I don't know why, but my reading of the gospel of John has always given me the impression that the writer of the gospel was very young during Jesus life here on earth.

Thank you Simcha,makes me think that Jesus had a son no one wanted to disclose to the Romans.

Hi Simcha James was Jesus half brother who became martyred in 63 AD this was mentioned by Josephus the Historian and Philo there's more to the eye can reach .

I have recently started following your videos which I find interesting but this particular one is very easy to puncture holes into. One huge vacuum you left was dealing with the explanation of the description of the beloved disciple in John 21: in the last verses especially verse 25 where the writer says 'this same disciple is the one testifying ( in the continuous tense) and has recorded these writings '. The general consensus is the gospel of John was written in the turn of the century between 90 and 100AD by which time James was dead. Who was the only disciple of christ alive at that time, there you have your answer- JOHN/ YOHAN/ YUNUS. James died in 44 AD. So, while I understand the temptation to create a conspiracy theory, we must not lead people in the path of untruth as the whole goal of archeology is to get as much truth as we can from ancient evidence.

HIS SON WOULD NOT HAVE STOPPED AT THE TOMB ENTRANCE.

It's my belief that Jesus never married cause he had come to fulfill a purpose and making a family wasn't it.

I feel like an idiot for not knowing about Simcha's Naked Archeologist series, but I'm so glad I know now & have all these episodes to watch!

For me it is far far better to think and to imagine that Jesus had brothers, one was called James who was the true successor, and that Jesus and Mary Magdalen had a child named Judah,...........than not. Sacha.......I've watched this three times...........be well.....thank you.

You guys should correct your mistakes. Adding something in the description would be nice, especially for such a glaring error.

Thanks for listening the the Christians Simcha. Jesus had no son for many many reasons. The kingdom of God started when Jesus died and was resurrected.

8 Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed. For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.

It was Mary Magdalene. Remember the Ebionites was removed from History and her character slander and so what you read in the Bible today, was not what it was back then. But all is speculation, of course.

Often brilliant, this one has an unsatisfactory ending - not yet solved!

Saint John was the Beloved Disciple. He asked Jesus who is he referring to, the one who would betray him and he whispered it to him and that was not heard by the other disciples. So it was Saint John.

lazarus was the beloved Disciple. It is written in the Gospel of John, that Jesus loved Lazarus. Also his sister Maria was a witness from the scenes from Golgotha..so it makes absoluty sense that Lazarus was going with her. Maria the mother of Jesus was very old at that time, so she overnighted perhaps in Bethany where Lazarus lived. Because i can't imagine that she going her way from Nazareth to Jerusalem...too much distance for sn old woman. I am prety sure that she lived with Lazarus and his famiy. When they received the message that Jesus get crucified, Lazarus took both Marias (his sister and Jesus mother) to go and be an eyewitness from golgotha. On the cross Jesus made it official, that Lazarus is now the son from maria.

Jesus does not call the beloved disciple 'son', He just says, "behold, your mother."

Peter also went into the tomb, actually before the beloved deciple. Why did he not need purification?

The beloved disciple is mentioned only in John. John's gospel includes much material that isn't in the other three. According to John 21:24, the gospel writer used the beloved disciple as his source. In other words, the beloved disciple is a construction whose primary purpose is to explain how John could know things about Jesus that no one else did.

I find these shows very interesting, very informative. Thank you for uploading them. I hope there will be a lot more. The first one I ever saw was the show about Moses that the scholars had the freeing of the Jews in the wrong time period. Instead of Ramses it was Thutmose. I was flabbergasted and it made sense to me. So again thank you and I hope there will be more like these.

I thought I remember something about Aramaic having one word for brother/cousin/contemporary male relative or kinsmen. So those individuals identified as Jesus' brothers may have been cousins or close male friends?

The beloved disciple appears 4 times in the Gospel of John. The last time is at the lake in John 21

It couldnt have been Thomas as it also says that after Peter and the beloved Apostle entered the tomb and saw the folded grave wrappings 'they believed' . Thomas didnt believe until Jesus showed him the wound in his side when they were all gathered again in the upper room after the resurrection. There was nothing to stop Thomas from having heard about the wound from somebody, so this just isnt conclusive proof that he was the Apostle at the Crucifixion.

The beloved disciple fled the garden at gethsemane when the centurions appraoched. Four times, not three.

He may have presented something new to many here but these traditions from 2000 years ago are still alive and well and not because they read or studied at a seminary or theological college but rather through traditions. It may be new to your ears yet to people in Mallorca and the Gaditanos of Spain it is common belief. They keep these Ebionite traditions. It is therefore obviously not something new.

But wait a minute, didn't Peter enter the tomb too!!! How come he didn't quarantine for 8 days

Something confusing being said by the presenter. He said Mary Magdalena is Not a Disciple of Jesus. I think he meant to say or mean Apostle ( one of the 12 ). She is a Disciple by virtue of being a follower of Jesus. Disciple means follower.

Shimcha, please read the book of John chapter 21 verses 20 to 24, especially the verse 24, it may solve your questions,whose the Beloved Disciple..

Wow, recently 2024, taking Dr James Tabor ( i love that man and his work) and I asked the same question in a comment. I wonder, also, if it was his own son as I interpret Jesus talking to his own son and his mom ( the sons grandmother or mother-Jesus wife) at the foot of the cross. ❤ Dr James does have a good theory tho, by eliminating the disciples named and not named.

I'm just curious whether he has a video on the transfiguration...

It is Lazarus! That's why they thought he wouldn't die, because he had already died once. It is said that Lazarus's formal name is John Eleazar.

you are doing great keep going and please work on islam too god bless you you are opening our eyes on truth

Why do we think that Mary Magdalene wasn't a disciple? Was it a crime for Jesus to have a wife? These are profound questions that need answers which obviously I guess we will never know.

I'd love to be able to hear the words he's saying but I can't hear him for the music so loud. I'm sure I'd like this show. Sad.

Don’t get me wrong but in the gospels I with they did something like, “sorry I had to refer to Thomas to write that down because I forgot my papyrus, ink well and feather quill that day” Or “I had to refer to John because I’m illiterate.” And “don’t worry thought all the strife and death and rebellion with the romans and just struggling to survive the day, we locked that small papyrus quote in the secret strongbox for posterity.”

Scholars now think John actually wrote the Gospel that bears his name. John was the "beloved disciple."

Can you please tone down the background music when it clashes with any voice overs.

I am intrigued by jesus having a son, although i am open to that but, assume Jesus started teaching when he was 30 and died when he was 33, there is only 3 years where jesus might marry magdelene and had a son. This boy would be around a year old, he couldnt be running in the street with linen clothes , would he?

He says 3 times. The 4th is at the arrest, in the garden. He was grabbed; however, he slipped out of his robes and ran off, naked, into the night. I think that it's Lazarus, whom He loved..... recently raised.

Hey Simca, is that you playing that bass solo?

Good morning everyone

I always thought it is Thomas/Didymus.... not meaning, the twin , .. but, meaning , the one most like HIM.

Old Testament say’s “ It’s the True when two or more agreed “. If only from One. Can’t be the True.

John was Jesus' cousin; he was 6 months older than Jesus. His mother was Elizabeth, who was Mary's cousin whom Mary stayed with during she and Elizzbeth's pregnancies.

I agree with Dr. Tabor, that it was James. Only his name was Y'acob, (as there was no "J" back then. King James wanted his name in the bible and changed it is what I've heard.

Wasnt Juda the one who hang himself, after Jesus of Nazareth was overhanded...

There was no body in the tomb,.due to Jesus resurrection, so no one would be unclean. The was no body to come into contact with.

Excellent work! My own amateur investigation led me to think it was Thomas, but I never made the leap to consider it was his son - but it is plausible from a few perspectives. I include in that the possibility Thomas may have also been the "Stephen" that pre-conversion Paul instigated the stoning of - and his name later changed because it would've been so inflammatory to the early Christian church. (I wonder if any analysis has been done on the bones in the ossuaries). Either way, it definitely implies a major divide in the earliest Christian beliefs after Jesus - and it makes me more curious than ever to know what the original teaching of Jesus was, that folks were so fearful to want to cover up. I do disagree on a minor point James Tabor makes, implying that the 'inhuman Christ-only' version of Jesus was put forward by the mystic side of Christianity. It was surely the orthodoxy that wanted to drop the problematic human side.

I’m surprised you didn’t mention Lazarus as a candidate. It could have been Lazarus in Mark who was in linen burial clothes that ran away naked. Lazarus was the ONLY person the Bible says Jesus “loved”. Peter asked Jesus about Lazarus because he was raised from the dead once, what would happen to him? Lazarus was the only one at the cross because he didn’t fear death like the rest of the disciples. Lazarus understood the resurrection at the tomb because he was familiar with all of the burial clothes and mentions them by name. I was surprised none of these items were even mentioned.

It is interesting that Thomas went to India for it is believed by many in India that both Jesus and his mother Mary also went to India. And that Jesus was married to someone named Mary there. So it is said. I wasn't there. But I am called John.

The Beloved Disciple is no other than, Lazarus - brother of Martha and Mary.. although he is also mentioned in passing as a son of Mary in the crucifixion, Mary Magdalene and not Mary, mother of Jesus.

From the book by Kamal Salibi,"Conspiracy in Jerusalem" The treason of Judas Jeshu Bar Nagara did not have to be betrayed by one of his own disciples for his life to end on the cross. He had made a conspicuous entry into Jerusalem: with a whip in his hand, he had openly led a riot in the precincts of the Temple, and then used the same precincts as his public platform--a fact to which all four Gospels attest. The High priest could immediately have had him seized and brought before them for questioning about his Messianic pretensions and unruly behaviour. There was no need to track him down because he was not living in hiding. On the night of his arrest, he was enjoying a leisurely supper with his disciples,after which the party went to a 'garden' outside the city to which everybody had access. When the men sent by the high priests arrived to arrest him,it is reported that Jeshu was surprised to find them armed (Mark 14:48-9;cf. Luke 22:52-3; Matthew 26:55 ): Did you come with with swords and clubs to capture me,as though I were an outlaw? Day after day I was with you teaching in the Temple, and you did not arrest me. All four Gospels, however, insist that Jeshu was betrayed, and repeatedly name his betrayer as Judas Iscariot--the disciple he trusted enough to make the keeper of his 'money bag'. For such a betrayal to be necessary, the whereabouts of the Master and his disciples on the day of his arrest--more particularly the place where they had the Last Supper---had to be secret. A story was told to suggest--but not explicitly state--that this was the case (Mark 14:12--15) On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened bread,the day the lambs for the Passover meal were killed,Jesus' disciples asked him,' Where do you want us to go and get the Passover meal for you?' Then Jesus sent two of them with these instructions: 'Go into the city,and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him to the house he enters, and say to the owner of the house: the Teacher says, Where is the room where my disciples and I will eat the Passover meal?' Then he will show you a large upstairs room,prepared and furnished, where you will get everything ready for us.' This story about the mysterious man with the 'water jar' leading the two disciples to the secret premises where they prepared the Last Supper first found its way into the Gospel of Mark. Luke,who loved such stories, repeated this one from Mark almost word for word(22:7-12) Matthew,whose Gospel on the whole provides the closest parallel to Mark's, does not appear to have believed the tale. He repeats it but omits from it the man with the 'water jar' According to Matthew, the Last Supper was eaten in the house of a friend,or perhaps in a hired apartment (Matthew 26:17-18): the disciples came to Jesus and asked him, 'Where do you want us to get the Passover meal ready for you?' 'Go to a certain man in the city,' he said to them, 'and tell him: " The Teacher says.....'My discioles and I will celebrate the Passover at your house." John does not say where the Last Supper was prepared and eaten. His account of the simply says: 'It was now the day before the Passover Festival....Jesus and his disciples were at supper' (13:1-2). Unless one insists that the Gospel of Mark, being the oldest of the four, is the most credible on all counts,which is a commonly held view, the story it relates about the man with the 'water jar' who led the disciples to the mysterious 'upstairs room' where they prepared the Last Supper --a story repeated only by habitually credulous Luke---must be regarded as apocryphal. Had it been necessary for Bar Nagara and his party to have the Last Supper in a hideout, they would not have gone directly after the meal to spend the rest of the evening in a public park.

So who is the beloved deciple

Mary is beloved disciple of Jesus Christ of Nazareth!

Barabas was also called Jesus which must have been confusing to Pilate Twins and sons but also real brothers like James,

The beloved disiple is JUDA which jesus had a son with mariamne (Marie magdalena) he was the secret disiple they kept it a secret as they would of killed juda jesus son aswell not lazarus

In Truth this is the First This I heard Thomas is the Beloved Disciple . In other Videos it's Always been John they say Hmmm . Always a first time . Seems people have a Different Spin on things , Or their Own Ideas

MAYBE THE "Beloved Disciple" SOUNDS MORE LIKE HIS SON! HE WAS AT THE CROSS ON ONE OF YOUR OTHER VIDEOS!

Mary M held a viable position and she could very well have been "a disciple and a wife". I feel both have strong cases, that it would be James and Thomas. The Roman Priests remove much of James for Peter and Paul and left Thomas out. "Gospel of Thomas" qualifies based on their criteria and is arguably the most important of the New Testament Gospels. It is 99% Jesus speaking. Audio available on RU-vid - appx 25 min listen. I just know Someone will go to most original Texts and with modern interpretation/translation skill experts, prepare a Most Accurate Possible Copy of the whole Bible and qualifying Gospels. *Please* Jesus was born as a human and he Ascended. It was the point. I never expectred Mary remain a Virgin her entire life, she married Joseph. ...and I'm a Catholic. Not so Roman anymore but Catholic.

You have to consider when Jesus appeared to the Disciples, he was fine, unhurt. So it was ridiculous to verify him by the wound in his side. 14:30

Do you still do these?

What happened to the fallen angels who mated with earthly women and had children to them? Why would the King of the Angels commit such a sin.? Jesus was without sin!

It's the humanness of the author.

Jesus's favourite disciple is still being ignored but why was he Jesus's favourite we don't know.

Simcha is an orthodox Jew. He believes Jesus was a criminal. That is his religious tenet or dogma. The things he covers should always be taken in in the light of his convictions

There was no children in the upper room where they were. Thomas could have been at work or visiting his family. It doesn’t tell us and it doesn’t matter. John didn’t go in until Peter to give Peter respect. John being a Christian and Thomas for that matter, didn’t do any more of the “Law”. Jesus said when you are born of the Spirit [of God/Jesus] we are completely forgiven of all sins. Past and present and future. And He told them they were under the Grace of God now. God doesn’t see their sim. God sees His son’s freely given, blood which washes away sin. Isaiah says we will be as white as snow. So no one would have to worry about cleansing ceremony anymore. Ex- If it was still in effect, the 2 Mary’s who was in the grave would have been “unclean”. Did you see that they didn’t even pay attention of that and neither did Peter, John and all of them in the “apt”/room. The dead babies was back when they sacrificed them to Molick. Read the middle of 1st kings to 2nd Kings. You will see for instance King Hezekiah’s fatherAhaz, was totally into idle worship. That’s why God was so upset with them, and he would have babies sacrifice to Mullick all the time and women who got pregnant outside of marriage had to sacrifice them as well unless they kept kept them secret. Also, they couldn’t drowned them in the water but I don’t think so because then everybody would see dead babies, so it sounds more like all the babies that were sacrificed to the idols. Look up the book, gods and kings. It’s a six book series. I listen to it on audible. The author is amazing and very studied and wrote about the kings in a novel that is very close to the Bible that will help you also.

My dad said it's to keep it down line of the families that from there so they wouldn't be murdered otherwise it would have been murdered off that is the reasoning of it and even the groups in the Judaism and also and other Christian groups I also said the same thing they had to save the family from being murdered

It was Mark who was naked and ran. Mark was Peter's son.

I've solved your mistery. Beloved desciple is made up in this late book like all other things that do not appear in earlier gospels.

Maybe Thomas was away from the rest of the disciples for a time because he looked so much like Jesus that he might be mistaken for him. There were various Jesus sightings after tomb was opened.

All I know is that Jesus Christ loves every one obviously he probably had his favourite friend like us all...but who cares He loves so much the world...

Sad his son died young

Jesus's BFF was Mary Magdalene

Oh how he loved him he wept for him it was Lazarus

At what point did Jesus meet Mary Magdeline? Wasn't it after he started his ministry? He obviously could not have married Mary M. and had a child old enough to have his own house to take in his mother? He couldn't be old enough to run to the tomb and enter. (Nor would an adult let him) An adult would not have allowed a young boy of Jesus descent stand at the cross and witness such tragedy as the crucifixion of his father. Why was Peter present when Jesus appeared? He entered the tomb! Why would the Beloved Disciple be the only one to honor Jewish tradition? It would not bother me at all to know that Jesus married and had a child. He was a human and God at the same time. He lived like a human, he was tempted beyond comprehension. Everything ancillary to that was living in a human body and maybe marriage and bearing children was not out of the question.

8:00 well actually if it's one of Jesus' brothers, then he ISN'T commissioning him to be Mary's son, he is rather just making a factual and biological obaervation.

The Immaculate Conception, or Virgin Birth dictate that genetically Jesus did not have a Y Chromosome, and so fathering children would be impossible.

Nathaniel is the beloved disciple. Everything in the gospels point to Nathaniel. He shows faith that Jesus is the son of God,first before the other disciples. Jesus tells Nathaniel, he will witness the Angel's of God attending to Jesus. So he would not leave Jesus's side,right up to witnessing the crucifixion. And in that loyalty he would be exalted to the first transference to brother, so he called Mary his mother. And lastly, the only new person named in John is Nathaniel. He would be expecting to see angels with Jesus's body at the tomb of Jesus. So he ran faster than the other time get to the tomb.

Why did they think was not going too die because he already died and resurrected

Yahshua was not "orthodox" in fact, He was quite "unorthodox".

The Beloved Disciple? I thought that was Judas Iscariot, if the "Gospel of Judas" is to be believed? Scene as Judas was the only disciple with the willpower to do what Jesus wanted him to do, after which Jesus was said to have taught Judas the true meaning of the word of god etc. My question would be: How can anyone know where anyone was during the last supper? None of us were there. I find it hard to believe that they didn't move around, collecting their food and what not. It's not like they had ancient name tags on the table saying "Judas's place", "John's place" "Paul's place" etc, with no deviation from their seating positions what so ever. So isn't it likely that at one point or another, Judas would have been to the right of Jesus in one instance, as well as to the left of Jesus in another instance, during the last supper? That painting is only that, after all, an artists "impression" of the last supper. Why should it be taken for granted? Da Vinci isn't Flavius Josephus, Da Vinci wasn't known to be a historian. The problem I have with Revelations, is that it did actually happen in ancient times, to an extent. We think it applies to a coming apocalypse. It doesn't. It applies to the threat of the old Roman empire, the spread of paganism and it's threat to Christianity. In a sense, the ancients way of life did come to an end, when Nero more or less declared war on Christians, after he blamed them for the fire that burned down half of Rome. That era was the start of revelations. That era was what was being talked about in Revelations. 666: The number of the beast. The only real question, is whether or not it is 666 or 616, Nero or Caligula? Personally, I favour Nero since everything that was going on during Nero's time, fits in with the account given in the book of revelations, more so than Caligula. The original scroll that was found which gives the actual number, was so badly damaged that the true number could not be read, so we don't actually know if it is Nero or Caligula. The restorer's who worked on the scroll, more or less, assumed that the number was 666. Unless we find another scroll piece, with the number printed on it, we may never know. If we do find it, it could cause the bible as we know it (or at least part of it), to be re-written. One of the problems with the modern accounts given in the bible is that half of it was edited out by Holy Roman Emperor Constantine and the Council of Nicea. That's why we have lost Gospels, like the Gospel of Judas. That's why people today are only familiar with the current Gospels. Constantine and the Council of Nicea caused untold damage to the biblical text, when they canonised the bible, and removed a lot of the other Gospels. In my humble opinion, Constantine was about as "holy" as a block of cheese... when they are talking about running to the tomb, why do I keep thinking of the old biblical quote that goes along the lines of "Those who are first shall be last, and those who are last, shall be first"?

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The beloved disciple was John. Christ while on the cross told John to take care of his mother.

Lazarus.....not James! That's why he says, "behold your mother" as an introduction....

Who sat on the right side of Christ at the last supper and you have it. It's Bartholomew it's an easy one I think he too died in India like Thomas I think.

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It is James. In the Gospel of Thomas, when the deciples ask Jesus who they should turn to when he is gone, he says James, because it is because of him heaven open up to is or something to that affect. Look up James and you will learn, he prayed so much his knees were like camel hide. Additionally, he could walk into God's temple at will. He was a Buddhist. Nirvana and Grace are the same affect.

You got some of these things wrong.He never said Son !

Most religious scholars are aware of the theory that Jesus had offspring. Supposedly, he was married to Mary Magdalene, and bore children. This theory is not just in fictional writings, but has been around since the beginning. What a lot of modern religious scholars don't know, or don't ACCEPT, is that many gospels and "books" have been removed from the bible in the past, by Catholic leaders (Pope Constantine for instance), because they felt that the information was blasphemous or sacrilegious to their agendas and beliefs. So, you have religious leaders throughout history, removing texts from the bible, just like in ancient Egypt, where present pharaohs would deface and remove information of former rulers, because it didn't fit their religious and political beliefs. Study some of the texts from the lost gospels, and there is more enlightening information on Jesus

if this is the end of times, then it fulfilled the prophecy "not die until the second coming".

As long as there are descendants, the bloodline does not die. Following DNA might be a way to find the beloved disciple.

There is only one that they said whome he loved and wept and already died and because of him many came and followed jesus

It was Lazarus

"makes no apology for his archeology" Don't you just love the theme song?

These is too much fantasy in this blog. Maria Valtorta, an Italian mystic from the 1940's and 50's gives a very full and descriptive summary of Jesus's life and those associated with Him. The "brothers" were the sons of Thaddeus, Joseph's brother; they were therefore Jesus' cousins. Anyone interested in these times should give Maria a go. John was the Disciple Jesus loves AND as he was a very young man gave Peter, his "boss" the chance to go in before him after beating him in a race to the grave site.

Woman behold your son,son behold your mother. No brothers, no sisters. Jesus would not need to set someone to care for his mother if he had siblings. He was born not to procreate but to save mankind. Baptisms , transgression, crucified, died/buried, resurrection. Ascension. For whom ever believe in him shall have eternal life Jesus/ God/ Holy Spirit Yeshua Emmanuel Son of God Lord Master

Jesus never called his beloved disciple son. So much assumptions, speculations and misquote of Bible. Full of deceit.

Remember John 11:25-26

Thomas?

THEN YAHUSHA six days before the Pecach came to Bethany, where El'azar was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but El'azar was one of them that sat at the table with him. YAHUCHANON (JOHN) 12:1-2 את CEPHER

I think the beloved deciple is jesus himself.