FAMILY TREE OF SCRIPTUREAdam → the apostle John
THE FAMILY TREE OF SCRIPTURE
Adam to the apostle John — one relational tree
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How Are They Related?

About This Tree

This tool maps roughly 270 named biblical individuals — every major genealogical link from Adam onward, plus everyone profiled in the Watchtower publication Walk Courageously With God — and about 365 relationships between them: parent/child (solid lines), marriage (thick pink lines), and other significant bonds such as mentorships, friendships, and rivalries (dashed lines).

Content follows the New World Translation and the chronology and understanding published by Jehovah's Witnesses (e.g., creation of Adam in 4026 B.C.E.; Jerusalem's destruction in 607 B.C.E., which differs from the 587/586 B.C.E. date used in most secular scholarship). Where the Bible gives ages or explicit intervals, dates are calculated from them; elsewhere dates are approximate era placements, marked "approx."

The tree deliberately stops at the apostle John — the last surviving apostle and, among people who could be described as alive during Jesus' earthly life, the last known to have died (traditionally, in Ephesus, around 100 C.E.).

This is not a census of every name in the Bible (there are thousands) — it is a connected map of the major line and its documented relationships. Use "How Are They Related?" to trace a path between any two people.