Aristion (martyr)

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Aristion (Greek Αριστίων, literally: more capable ) was one of the 72 disciples of Jesus in the early church according to the Greek Menee . He lived in Asia Minor and was a contemporary of the church father Papias and John the presbyter .

To person

Nothing is known about the origin of Aristion, according to tradition, he was born on the island of Cyprus .

Papias gives important information about Aristion: “If someone came who had followed the elders, then I inquired about the teachings of the elders and asked: What did Andrew say, what Peter, what Philip, what Thomas or James, what John or Matthew or any other of the Lord's disciples, and finally what also say Aristion and the presbyter John, who are also disciples of the Lord. "

Papias had his sources of information from the presbyters Aristion and / or John, who were disciples of Jesus, which can be understood literally, since Jesus not only had the twelve apostles as his disciples and followers, but also other disciples. But it could also mean that these two disciples were the apostles.

John the Presbyter and Aristion were thus contemporaries of Papias and Christians of the early Church.

Another mention of Aristion can be found in the marginal note of an Armenian minuscule manuscript from the 10th century at the text passage at the original end of Mark 16.8, in which the name “the presbyter Aristion” emerges and a long ending variant is then added to Mark .

Remembrance day

He is venerated as a saint ; his feast day is February 22nd . He apparently died a martyr around 100 AD in Salamis .

literature

  • D. Guthrie: New Testament introduction, The Gospel and the Acts (1965), 72
  • Feine-Behm-Kummel: Introduction to the New Testament (1966), pages 170-172

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past, AH Pierer 3rd edition, 1840, “Aristion Jünger Jesu”, page 336
  2. ↑ Papias. In: Eusebius: Historia Ecclesiastica III.39.4.
  3. ↑ Internet Archive A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Volume 1, author Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener, 1894
  4. ↑ S. Aristion, February 22nd, in Heiligenlexikon 1858
personal data
SURNAME Aristion
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aristion the Presbyter, Aristo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Contemporary of John the Presbyter
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century