3 others in the registry answer to the name James. Every James in the Bible
- verses
- 11
- first named
- Matthew 13:55
- last named
- Jude 1:1
- period
- the New Testament
- tribe
- Judah
Description
Who was James?
James was one of the brothers of Jesus, along with Joses, Judas, and Simon (Mat.13.55; Mrk.6.3). During Jesus' ministry, James and his brothers did not believe in Him (Jhn.7.5). However, after Jesus' resurrection, James became a believer and a prominent leader in the early church in Jerusalem. He was one of the individuals to whom Jesus appeared after His resurrection (1Co.15.7). In the early church, James played a significant role in the Jerusalem Council, which addressed the issue of Gentile believers and the Mosaic Law (Act.15.13-21). He also received Paul and his companions during their visits to Jerusalem (Act.21.18; Gal.1.19; 2.9). James authored the New Testament epistle that bears his name, in which he emphasizes practical faith and good works (Jam 1.1). He is often referred to as "James the Just" due to his reputation for righteousness and his strict observance of the Jewish law. According to early church tradition, James was martyred in Jerusalem around 62 AD.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The 10 best-attested of 12 are drawn. All 12 are listed below.
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where James is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
11 verses across 7 of 66 books; 59 write the name nowhere. Named in Matthew (1), Mark (1), Acts (3), 1 Corinthians (1), Galatians (3), James (1) and Jude (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 11, across 7 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Matthew 13James was named among Jesus’s brothers by the people of his hometown.
- Acts 15James listened to the discussion and declared the judgment about what should be required of the Gentiles.
- Acts 21James received Paul with the elders in Jerusalem and advised him how to answer the rumours.
- 1 Corinthians 15James was among those to whom the risen Christ appeared.
- Galatians 1James was the only other apostle whom Paul saw in Jerusalem.
- Galatians 2James was named among the reputed pillars who recognized the grace given to the speaker and extended fellowship.
- James 1James identifies himself as a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, then writes to the twelve tribes of the Dispersion.
- Jude 1James is named as Jude's brother.
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