Jesus Justus (Greek Ιησούς χω λεγόμενος Ιουστος ''Iesous ho legomenos Ioustos'') was one of several Jewish Christians in the church at Rome mentioned by

Paul the Apostle Paul; grc, Παῦλος, translit=Paulos; cop, ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ; hbo, פאולוס השליח (previously called Saul of Tarsus;; ar, بولس الطرسوسي; grc, Σαῦλος Ταρσεύς, Saũlos Tarseús; tr, Tarsuslu Pavlus; ...

in the greetings at the end of the Epistle to the Colossiansbr>4:11
It is generally thought that Paul wrote

Colossians The Epistle to the Colossians is the twelfth book of the New Testament. It was written, according to the text, by Paul the Apostle and Timothy, and addressed to the church in Colossae, a small Phrygian city near Laodicea and approximately fr ...

while in prison in Rome most likely during AD 50s. Of those with Paul, Justus, Aristarchus, and

Mark Mark may refer to: Currency * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927 * Fi ...

, the cousin of Barnabas, are said in the letter to be "of the circumcision", that is, Jewish and to have "proved a comfort to me." The name ''Jesus'' was common among Jews in the time of

Jesus of Nazareth Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label=Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious ...

, being a form of the

Old Testament The Old Testament (often abbreviated OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew writings by the Israelites. The ...

name

Joshua Joshua () or Yehoshua ( ''Yəhōšuaʿ'', Tiberian: ''Yŏhōšuaʿ,'' lit. 'Yahweh is salvation') ''Yēšūaʿ''; syr, ܝܫܘܥ ܒܪ ܢܘܢ ''Yəšūʿ bar Nōn''; el, Ἰησοῦς, ar , يُوشَعُ ٱبْنُ نُونٍ '' Yūšaʿ ...

(''

Yeshua Yeshua or Y'shua (; with vowel pointing he, יֵשׁוּעַ, Yēšūaʿ, labels=no) was a common alternative form of the name Yehoshua ( he, יְהוֹשֻׁעַ, Yəhōšūaʿ, Joshua, labels=no) in later books of the Hebrew Bible and among Jew ...

'' ישוע). The extra name "Justus" was likely to distinguish him from his Master,

Jesus Christ Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label=Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious ...

. Jesus Justus is not mentioned in a similar passage in Philemonbr>1:23-24
whereas Aristarchus,

Epaphras Epaphras ( el, Ἐπαφράς) was an observer of the Apostle Paul mentioned twice in the New Testament epistle of Colossians and once in the New Testament letter to Philemon. Biblical accounts Epaphras is mentioned three times in the New Testa ...

and Mark are again explicitly named by Paul.

References

* Hastings, J. (1963). Dictionary of the bible. 2nd ed. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. * Cox, S. (2006). The new testament and literature. Peru, IL: Open Court. * Feldman, Louis H. & Hata, Gohei. (1988). Josephus, the bible and history. Tokyo, Japan: Yamamoto Shoten Publishing House. {{New Testament people People in the Pauline epistles Early Jewish Christians 1st-century Jews