In his Gospel, Saint John recounts the calling of the first apostles, including his own: “John (the Baptist) and two of his disciples were there again, and seeing Jesus as he walked by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!” The two disciples (Andrew and the young John) asked Jesus, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), ‘where are you staying?’ He replied, ‘Come and see.’ So they went and spent that day with him. It was about four in the afternoon.”.
Andrew told his brother Simon (whom Jesus called Cephas, the first Pope), and John told his brother James, sons of Zebedee and Salome. They were fishermen from Galilee. The Gospels mention Saint John, for example, when he asked Jesus in the Last Supper who was going to betray him, and for remaining at Calvary next to the Lord on the Cross, with Mary Magdalene, Mary of Cleophas and other women, when everyone else fled.
“When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved” (writes the evangelist), he said to his mother from the cross, ‘Woman, here is your son.’ Then he said to the disciple, ‘Here is your mother’ (Jn. 19:25-27). There Mary’s motherhood was established., points out the Church. In four lines, the Gospel of John cites the word "mother" five times. He wrote the Apocalypse (Revelation), and with the Virgin Mary he lived in Ephesus, from where he evangelized Asia Minor.
