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The Fourth Gospel may also have been written later as it was penned for a smaller group within the Johannine community, and was not circulated widely until a later date. [39] However, claims of authorship that date much later than 100AD have been called into question due to the Rylands Library Papyrus P52 , a fragment of the gospel found in ...
The Gospel of John, like all the gospels, is anonymous. [14] John 21:22 [15] references a disciple whom Jesus loved and John 21:24–25 [16] says: "This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and has written them, and we know that his testimony is true". [11]
Also known to have written the book of Acts (or Acts of the Apostles) and to have been a close friend of Paul of Tarsus John – a disciple of Jesus and the youngest of his Twelve Apostles They are called evangelists , a word meaning "people who proclaim good news", because their books aim to tell the "good news" ("gospel") of Jesus.
The options for this John are John the son of Zebedee, traditionally viewed as the author of the Fourth Gospel, or John the Presbyter. [24] Traditional advocates follow Eusebius in insisting that the apostolic connection of Papius was with John the Evangelist, and that this John, the author of the Gospel of John, was the same as the apostle John.
Gospel of Perfection – 4th century, an Ophite poem that is only mentioned once by a single patristic source, Epiphanius, [6] and is referred to once in the 6th century Syriac Infancy Gospel. Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians – also called Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit.
The fourth gospel, John, differs greatly from the other three. [note 3] A growing majority of scholars consider the Gospels to be in the genre of Ancient Greco-Roman biographies, [12] the same genre as Plutarch's Life of Alexander and Life of Caesar. Typically, ancient biographies written shortly after the death of the subject and include ...
John the Evangelist [a] (c. 6 AD – c. 100 AD) is the name traditionally given to the author of the Gospel of John.Christians have traditionally identified him with John the Apostle, John of Patmos, and John the Presbyter, [2] although there is no consensus on how many of these may actually be the same individual.
John 4 is the fourth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The eternality of Jesus. The major part of this chapter (verses 1-42) recalls Jesus' conversation with the Samaritan woman at the well in Sychar. In verses 43-54, he returns to Galilee, where he heals a royal official's son.