C45-50 AD (no mention of the Jerusalem Council, Acts 15)
Who is James?
4 men named James
James, brother of John
James, son of Alphaeus
James the father of Judas Acts 1:13
James the half-brother of Jesus
Matt. 13:55, Mark 6:3
John’s brother James martyred by Herod earlier Acts 12:2
Tradition implies that it was James the Less who may have taken the gospel to Persia (modern Iran) and was martyred there. But other than that possibility, James the son of Alphaeus is the picture of obscure service.
