John the Apostle Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of John the Apostle? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for John the Apostle from Biblical Figures and what is the personality traits.
INFP (4w5)
John the Apostle personality type is INFP, which means the Luke the Evangelist personality type is INTP. INTPs are often more religious than other personality types, so it's no surprise that the Luke the Evangelist personality type would be more religious than INTPs.
Related: 16 Things We Learned From Reading the Bible
The personalities of the other characters in the Bible are also interesting.
Jude, a member of the Apostles, was a brother of James and a son of Joseph from a previous marriage. He was a Jewish Christian who refused to believe in Jesus, even though he knew he was sent from God.
Luke would have been a member of the same group of Jewish Christians as Jude, but he was a Gentile who believed in Jesus. In fact, Luke's Gospel begins with an explanation of why Luke didn't believe in Jesus.
King Herod of Judea had killed all newborn boys in Bethlehem under 2 years old and demanded that all men in Judea become his subjects by having a special mark put on their foreheads, but Luke refused to get an identifying mark of any kind and escaped to Rome, where he wrote his Gospel.
Depictions of the personalities of the other Apostles are also interesting.
John the Apostle (Aramaic: ܝܘܚܢܢ ܫܠܝܚܐ, Yohanān Shliḥā; Hebrew: יוחנן בן זבדי, Yohanan ben Zavdi; Ancient Greek: Ἰωάννης; Coptic: ⲓⲱⲁⲛⲛⲏⲥ or ⲓⲱ̅ⲁ; Latin: Ioannes; c. 6 AD – c. 100 AD) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Generally listed as the youngest apostle, he was the son of Zebedee and Salome. His brother was James, who was another of the Twelve Apostles. The Church Fathers identify him as John the Evangelist, John of Patmos, John the Elder and the Beloved Disciple, and testify that he outlived the remaining apostles and that he was the only one to die of natural causes. The traditions of most Christian denominations have held that John the Apostle is the author of several books of the New Testament.
