How many general letters are there in the New Testament?

Answer 1

In this context, the reference is to John, son of Zeberdee. Tradition credits him with having written five books: the Gospel of John, the three epistles that now bear his name (1 John, 2 John, 3 John) and the Book of Revelation.

However:

• the fourth gospel was originally anonymous and was only attributed to John quite late in the second century. As modern scholars say that the Gospel could not have been written by an eyewitness to the events described, the attribution to John is unlikely to be historically true;
  
• The three epistles were all written by the same person, who calls himself the presbyter (or, in some translations, the 'elder'). It is inconceivable that the apostle John would have referred to himself in this way, and hard to imagine that he would never mention his association with Jesus, if only to have his message more readily accepted. The presbyter who wrote the epistles wascertainly not the apostle John.
• The Book of Revelation is signed by a person called John, but the book's theology is entirely different to that in the gospels. The early Church Fathers debated who Revelation's John was, and only kept the Book of Revelation for fear that they mightotherwise abandon a book associated with an apostle. Theologians generally agree that this book was written in the last decade of the first century, making authorship by the apostle John most unlikely.

Answer 2

Two books of The Bible were authored by John the Apostle [c. A.D. 6-100]. One is the Gospel of John. The other is the First Epistle of John, I John.

Another answer:

New Testament scholars do not believe that the apostle John wrote any books in the Bible.

They note that the fourth gospel, now known as John's Gospel, was originally anonymous and was only attributed to John later in the second century, largely on the grounds that John's name never appeared in the gospel! John is loosely based on the Gospels of Luke and Mark, and scholars say that the fourth gospel could not have been written by an eyewitness to the events portrayed, thus ruling out John as a possible author.

The First Epistle of John is believed to have been written shortly after John's Gospel, when a split occurred in the Johannine community. Although from the same Christian community as John, the epistles were not by the same author.

The Book of Revelation is signed by a person called John but we do not know who this otherwise unknown John was, so he is generally referred to as 'John of Patmos'. Because of the similarity of names, Revelation was at one stage attributed to the apostle John and, in fact, that attribution is the main reason the Book of Revelation was allowed to survive to modern times. He wrote five: The gospel of John, 1,2 & 3 John, and Revelation.

Answer 3

He wrote five: The gospel of John, 1,2 & 3 John, and Revelation.

Answer 4

John the Apostle wrote three of the letters in the new testament John 1,2 and 3. He also wrote the Gospel of John. There is also much evidence that he also wrote Revelation.

Answer 5

Only once as far as I recall, when the woman was taken in adultary He wrote in the sand, what he wrote we are not told.

Answer 6

John wrote I, II, and III John, and in addition he wrote the Gospel according to St. John, and the Book of Revelation.

Answer 7

Twenty-one.

Answer 8

36