John the Apostle

John the Apostle (c. 6 - c. 100) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the Bible. He was the son of Zebedee and Salome and the younger brother of James, son of Zebedee, another of the Apostles. Christian tradition holds that he was the last surviving Apostle. With the exception of Judas Iscariot who ultimately hanged himself for betraying Jesus, all of the others became martyrs of the Catholic Church. The Church Fathers generally identify him as the author of five books in the New Testament: the Gospel of John, the three Epistles of John and the Book of Revelation.

John the Apostle in Gunpowder Empire
In an alternate known to Crosstime Traffic as Agrippan Rome, the Bible only had three Gospels as the Gospel according to John had never been written. Crosstime Traffic employees speculated that this was due to the fact that John the Apostle was never born in that alternate. Such differences provided scholars in the home timeline with material to embark on the new field of Comparative Crosstime Bible Studies.