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The First Epistle of John is written in the same spirit as the Gospel of John, but doesn't cite anything from it. Because of this, Udo Schnelle argues that the First Epistle of John was written after the other Johannine Epistles, but before the Gospel of John, around the year 95 and in close proximity to Ephesus. [22]
The epistle's content, language and conceptual style are very similar to the Gospel of John, 2 John, and 3 John. [3] Thus, at the end of the 19th century scholar Ernest DeWitt Burton wrote that there could be "no reasonable doubt" that 1 John and the gospel were written by the same author.
A Syriac Christian rendition of St. John the Evangelist, from the Rabbula Gospels, 6th century. Johannine literature is traditionally considered to include the following works: [2] The Gospel of John; The Johannine epistles. The First Epistle of John; The Second Epistle of John; The Third Epistle of John; The Book of Revelation
The majority of scholars see four sections in the Gospel of John: a prologue (1:1–18); an account of the ministry, often called the "Book of Signs" (1:19–12:50); the account of Jesus's final night with his disciples and the passion and resurrection, sometimes called the Book of Glory [33] or Book of Exaltation (13:1–20:31); [34] and a ...
John the Apostle is traditionally held to be the author of the Gospel of John, and many Christian denominations believe that he authored several other books of the New Testament (the three Johannine epistles and the Book of Revelation, together with the Gospel of John, are called the Johannine works), depending on whether he is distinguished ...
Several church fathers of the 2nd century never quoted John, but the earliest extant written commentary on any book of the New Testament was that written on John by Heracleon, a disciple of the gnostic Valentinus. [32] The following table shows the number of times various church fathers cited John compared to the synoptic gospels. [33]
The modern consensus is that a Johannine community produced the Gospel of John and the three Johannine epistles, while John of Patmos wrote the Book of Revelation separately. [c] [15] [16] The book is commonly dated to about AD 95, as suggested by clues in the visions pointing to the reign of the emperor Domitian. [17]
The Second Epistle of John [a] is a book of the New Testament attributed to John the Evangelist, traditionally thought to be the author of the other two epistles of John, and the Gospel of John (though this is disputed).