John

John is listed alongside Peter in the upper room roster — one of Jesus's inner circle, now part of the core group holding vigil before the Spirit's arrival.

John is mentioned here only to identify James — as James's brother and fellow member of Jesus' inner circle, his name underscores how significant a loss James's death represents.

John the Baptist is invoked here as the source of these disciples' incomplete foundation — his baptism was real and God-ordained, but always designed to point forward to Jesus.

John is Peter's companion on the way to the Temple — present at the moment Peter heals the man, and later clung to by the healed man alongside Peter.

John is arrested alongside Peter while still addressing the crowd, making him one of the first apostles to face official persecution for preaching the resurrection.

John referenced here is the Gospel writer and apostle — mentioned as one of Jesus' inner circle whose story Philip's mission parallels, since Jesus himself had a pivotal encounter with a Samaritan woman in John 4.

John is here presenting his core eyewitness testimony, stacking sensory verbs — heard, seen, looked at, touched — to insist that Jesus was a concrete physical person, not an abstract spiritual concept.

John is presenting the tension between calling people away from sin while simultaneously offering reassurance that failure doesn't end the relationship with God.

John opens this section with evident awe, quoting his own letter to highlight the staggering claim that believers are already, presently, called children of God.

John opens his warning section by urging his readers not to accept spiritual authority at face value, providing a concrete doctrinal test for evaluating any teacher or spirit claiming to speak for God.

John opens his greeting by repeating the word 'truth' four times in three verses, deliberately establishing it as the foundation of his relationship with this church and the framework for everything he's about to say.

John's Gospel is cited here as the source that records Jesus's prediction of Peter's death, anchoring Peter's reference to that forewarning in a verifiable written account.

John is here opening his letter with an unusually whole-person prayer for Gaius, praying that his outward circumstances would rise to match the already-thriving state of his inner spiritual life.