Bible Person
Male · 4 cross references
Alphaeus is the father associated with James son of Alphaeus and linked in later traditions with the apostolic family network around Jesus. He should be distinguished from other New Testament fathers named only through their sons. First appears in Matt 10:3.1
AI summary: Alphaeus matters because the cross references preserve him as the paternal anchor for one of the twelve apostles and for a cluster of related naming traditions in the Gospels and Acts. He is not given direct action, but his name helps stabilize apostolic and family identifications within the Gospel witness. Taken together, the material presents Alphaeus as a remembered father whose name supports the identification of one of Jesus' apostles.1
Central Figure
Alphaeus
The father of James the Less, the apostle and writer of the epistle (Matt.
The father of James the Less, the apostle and writer of the epistle (Matt. 10:3; Mark 3:18; Luke 6:15; Acts 1:13), and the husband of Mary (John 19:25). The Hebrew form of this name is Cleopas, or Clopas (q.v.). 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.