tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881811987987045711.post3346172144652238310..comments2024-03-23T18:12:43.833+00:00Comments on Once I Was A Clever Boy: St John the EvangelistOnce I Was A Clever Boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01367322665145704342noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881811987987045711.post-32838388054692270592011-12-30T19:07:12.984+00:002011-12-30T19:07:12.984+00:00I have always liked to think of John, the beloved ...I have always liked to think of John, the beloved disciple, as the youngest of the 12. Perhaps just bar-mitzvah'd or whatever the expression is and thus qualified to make up the <i>quorum</i> in the synagogue.<br />That would mean his walking alongside Christ from the ages of, say, 13-16: a deeply impressionable time in any young man's life. It would mean his having been born about A.D.20, and give him ample years in which to reflect, and would strengthen the claims opf the early fathers for his having lived into the second century.<br />Kind regards<br />John [named for the Baptist, although arrived a week late!]John F H Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01032884551581324489noreply@blogger.com