This is only a partial list of names that I have been called: “The man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan” “This fellow” “Good Teacher” “Elijah” “drunkard” “John” “Glutton” “the man” “Rabboni”

Who am I?

What would you like to have written on your tombstone as an epitaph? In one book of the Bible I am once called “the man of God,” four times “my servant,” and thirteen times “the servant of the Lord.” Should that suggest a goal for you? I do not want to sound boastful, for the Good Book calls me “a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.” Why does the Bible call me “the servant of the Lord” so often? One possible reason is that as a “servant,” I obeyed my master. Fifteen times in two chapters it is written that I did “as the Lord commanded.” Who am I?