9.5

The Beloved Disciple in John’s Gospel (Box 9.3)

• leans on Jesus’s chest at the Last Supper (13:23)
• intermediary between Peter and Jesus (13:24–25)
• gains admittance for Peter to Pilate’s court (18:15–16)
• entrusted with care of Jesus’s mother (19:26–27)
• witness to blood and water flowing from Jesus’s side (19:34–35)
• outruns Peter to the tomb on Easter morning (20:4)
• first to believe in the resurrection (20:8)
• identifies the risen Jesus for Peter (21:7)
• his fate should not be a matter of concern for Peter (21:21–23)
• wrote down these things; his testimony is true (21:24; cf. 19:35)