Very interesting! Maybe the John part of his name was given in the manner of Greco-Hebrew dual names, but that could be reading a historical angle into an otherwise fictive figure based on real people (or just Marcion). It appears important that Marcion, Mark, and proto-John appear to be our earliest sources (along with the older form of the Gospel of Thomas, something of an estranged sibling to John), and so the connections between all these figures appears especially meaningful.Giuseppe wrote: ↑Tue Feb 15, 2022 5:24 amMark is called in Acts "John Mark".
If he is our Mark, then he, as "John", figures already as the anonymous Beloved Disciple of the Fourth Gospel, since both the two "Johns" have a Mary with them:
When this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark,
(Acts 12:12)
26 When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold your son!” 27 Then He said to the disciple, “Behold your mother!” And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home.
(John 19:26-27)
Hence this makes not coincidentially my point: the anonymous figure who allows the Last Supper in his home was precisely Marcion, the Beloved Disciple of Jesus.
The identification has been obscured by the fact that Marcion rejected Mary as mother of Jesus. But afterall, proto-John denies that Mary is the true mother of Jesus:
"What is there between me and you, woman?"
It also appears that Peter as a figure of the Gospels is a synoptic invention, one with explicitly internal theological purposes, while it appears that Marcion-Mark-John-Beloved are all based on some of the earliest innovations in Christianity.