Paul attributes James’s later conversion to the appearance of Christ resurrected (1 Corinthians 15:7). James evidently was not a follower of Jesus during his public ministry. Hypotheses have been forwarded that James and Jesus were brothers (after Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria), stepbrothers (after Origen, among others), or cousins (after St. Exactly what the biblical Galatians 1:19 means by designating him “the Lord’s brother” is also uncertain, although he is mentioned elsewhere in the Gospels as one of Jesus’ four brothers (Mark 6:3 Matthew 13:55). He was leader of the Jerusalem Christians, who with Saints Peter and John the Evangelist is one of “the pillars of the church.”Ĭonfusion has arisen over his identity because he has often been mistaken for St. Paul, although not one of the original Twelve Apostles. Saint James, also called James, The Lord’s Brother, (died ad 62, Jerusalem Western feast day May 3), a Christian apostle, according to St.

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Introduction to the book of james