John (brother of Judas)

Also known as: John · Family: Judean · Role: brother of Judas · First appears: Book I, Chapter 1

John was the brother of Judas. In Book I, Chapter 1, not many days afterward, Antiochus’s supporters plotted against him and assassinated him.

Relationship record

John was assassinated by Antiochus’s supporters.(Book I, Chapter 1)
- “Nor was it many days afterward that his brother John had a plot laid against him by Antiochus's party, and was slain by them.”
Simon seized Jerusalem, while John and his zealots lost control of the city.(Book IV, Chapter 9 · 📍 Jerusalem)
- With: Simon (son of Giora)
- “And thus did Simon get possession of Jerusalem, in the third year of the war, in the month Xanthicus [Nisan]; whereupon John, with his multitude of zealots, as being both prohibited from coming out of the temple, and having lost their power in the city, [for Simon and his party had plundered them of what they had,] were in despair of deliverance.”

siblings with Judas (son of Matthias) “Nor was it many days afterward that his brother John had a plot laid against him by Antiochus's party, and was slain by them.”

Extracted from the original text of The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem. Made with Rho MD.