Literary Analyses of Johannine Characters
by Randy Lopez

Table of Active Characters

NAMED INDIVIDUALS
UNNAMED INDIVIDUALS
GROUPS
Andrew
(1:40, 44; 6:8; 12:22)
Another Disciple with Andrew
(1:37)
Brothers of Jesus
(7:5, 10)
Annas
(18:13, 24)
Another Disciple with Peter
(18:15)
Chief Priests
(21x:  7:32, 45; 11:47, etc.)
Barabbas
(18:40)
Boy with Bread and Fish
(6:9)
Council
(11:47)
Caiaphas
(11:49; 18:13, 14, 24, 28)
Bridegroom at Cana
(2:9)
Crowd
(20x:  5:13; 6:2, 5, etc.)
Devil (Evil One / Satan)
Devil (7:60; 8:44; 13:2)
Evil One (17:15)
Chief Steward at Cana
(2:8)
Disciples of Jesus
(74x:  2:2, etc.)
Jesus Christ
Jesus (244x:  1:17, 29, 36, etc.)
Christ (19x:  1:17, 20, 25, 41, etc.) 
Disciple whom Jesus Loved Disciples of John (the Baptist)
(1:35, 37; 3:25) 
John (the Baptist)
(19x:  1:6, 15, 19, etc.)
Holy Spirit Elders
(8:9)
Joseph of Arimathea
(19:38)
Ill Man at Bethzatha
(5:3-18)
Greeks Seeking Jesus
(12:20)
Judas Iscariot
(6:71; 12:4; 13:2, 26, 29; 18:2-5)
Man Born Blind
(9:1-41)
Group of Invalids at Bethzatha
(5:3)
Judas (not Iscariot)
(14:22)
Mother of Jesus
(2:1, 3, 5, 12; 19:25)
Jews
(71x:  1:19; 2:6, etc.)
Lazarus
(11x:  only 11:1-12:17)
Officer
(18:12)
Levites
(1:19)
Malchus, the High Priest’s Slave
(18:10)
Police who Struck Jesus
(18:22)
Merchants in the Temple
(2:14-16)
Martha of Bethany
(9x:  only in 11:1-12:2)
Relative of Malchus
(18:26)
Neighbors of the Man Born Blind
(9:8-12 only)
Mary Magdalene
(19:25; 20:1, 11-18)
Royal Official
(4:46)
Parents of the Man Born Blind
(9:18-23 only)
Mary of Bethany
(9x:  only in 11:1-12:3)
Samaritan Woman
(4:1-30, 39-42)
Pharisees
(20x:  1:24; 3:1, etc.)
Mary, the Wife of Clopas
(19:25)
Sister of the Mother of Jesus
(19:25)
Police / Temple Police / Jewish Police
(7:32, 45, 46; 18:3, 12, 18, 22; 19:6 only)
Nathanael
(1:45-49; 21:2)
Soldier with a Spear
(19:34)
Priests
(1:19)
Nicodemus
(3:1, 4, 9; 7:50; 19:39)
Sons of Zebedee by the Sea of Tiberias
(21:2)
Royal Official’s Slaves
(4:51)
Philip
(12x: 1:43-48; 6:5, 7; 12:21, 22; 4:8, 9)
Two Angels at the Tomb
(20:12)
Samaritans of Sychar
(4:28-30, 39-42)
Pilate
(20x:  but 18:29-19:38 only)
Two Others Crucified with Jesus
(19:18)
Scribes
(8:3)
Satan
(13:27)
Two Other Disciples by the Sea of Tiberias
(21:2)
Servants of the Feast at Cana
(1:28)
Simon Peter Woman Caught in Adultery
(8:3, 4)
Soldiers
Cohorts (18:3, 12)
Soldiers (19:2, 23, 25, 32, 34)
Thomas
(7x:  11:16; 14:5; 20:24-28; 21:2)
Woman who Guarded the Gate
(18:16)
The Twelve
(6:67, 70, 71; 20:29)
    The World
(78x: 1:9, 10, 29; etc.)

 
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