The son of Salome and Zebedee.

The gentile gospel writer.

He was born in Bethsaida. Brother of James. The youngest apostle

He was the son of Alphaeus .

He accompanied Paul and Barnabas on Paul's first missionary journey.

His material often focuses on women, the poor, and the lower class.

His book was intended for church readership.

He served Herod Antipas and a tetrarch of Galilee.

It is the shortest Gospel.

He showed Jesus as a man of action.

It was written some 30 years after the synoptic gospels.

He zooms in on the divinity of Christ.

No parables but several long sermons and prayer .

He recorded both birth and death stories of Jesus and

recorded parables of Jesus but many of them are unique.

The early Christians gathered at his family's house in Jerusalem.

He became a disciple of Peter and knew Jesus from Peter.

He was born in Cyrene, Libya.

Paul’s companion during the second journey.

He recorded no birth stories of Jesus