The Apostolic Fathers · AD 70–130
Jude, the Brother of the Lord
d. c. 80 (trad.) · Brother of Jesus · Author of the epistle · Galilee
The Apostolic Fathers
Who Jude, the Brother of the Lord was
“Judas, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James” — the self-description that, since James is the Lord’s brother, makes Jude the same by the plainest reading, as the Gospels’ brother-lists confirm (“James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas”). His short letter, “to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered,” fights an early libertinism with the Old Testament, 1 Enoch, and some of the New Testament’s most muscular Greek. Hegesippus preserves the family sequel: his grandsons, denounced as David’s line, were examined by Domitian himself — farmers with calloused hands — and dismissed as harmless, thereafter leading the churches “until Trajan.”
Common questions
When did Jude, die?
Jude, the Brother of the Lord is dated d. c. 80 (trad.) in the archive, which places Jude, in the Apostolic Fathers (AD 70–130). The dating is traditional and approximate; the archive marks it as uncertain rather than fixing a year the sources do not give.
What did Jude, write?
Jude, the Brother of the Lord has 1 catalogued writing in the archive: The Epistle of Jude.
Which early sources mention Jude,?
Jude, the Brother of the Lord is named in 3 primary-source passages catalogued here, drawn from Mark the Evangelist, Hegesippus and Jerome of Stridon. Every passage is quoted from a named public-domain translation, earliest first.
Where was Jude, from?
The archive associates Jude, the Brother of the Lord with Galilee.
Writings (1)
The Epistle of Jude
c. 65–80 (trad. dating)Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy…Read the full text ↗
Scripture record
Primary-source mentions (3)
Every passage below is quoted from a named public-domain translation, earliest first.
Mark 6:3 (named among the brothers of the Lord)
c. AD 55Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon?Mark the Evangelist · read ↗
Hegesippus, via Eusebius III.19–20
c. AD 180There still survived of the kindred of the Lord the grandsons of Judas, who according to the flesh was called his brother. These were informed against as belonging to the family of David, and Evocatus brought them before Domitian Caesar.Hegesippus · III.19–20 · source text
On Illustrious Men 4
c. AD 392Jude, the brother of James, left a short epistle which is reckoned among the seven catholic epistles.Jerome of Stridon · On Illustrious Men 4 · source text
Connected in the archive
People
- James the Just
- Mary, the Mother of Jesus
- The Grandsons of Jude
- Judas son of James (Thaddaeus)
- Symeon, son of Clopas
- Joses, brother of the Lord
- Simon, brother of the Lord
- Jesus of Nazareth
Events in this lifetime
- AD 30 · Crucifixion, Resurrection and Pentecost, AD 30–33
- AD 44 · Persecution under Herod Agrippa I, AD 44
- AD 49 · The Council of Jerusalem, AD 49
- AD 57 · Paul writes Romans, AD 57
- AD 62 · James the Just stoned, AD 62
- AD 64 · The Great Fire and Nero’s persecution, AD 64
- AD 70 · The fall of Jerusalem, AD 70
Place
Places served
The one place the sources put Jude,.
- 1Galileeprovince only