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To whom did Early church tradition ascribe the Gospel of John?
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Like all the New Testament gospels, the Gospel of John was written anonymously.
Exactly when John came to be associated with the Gospel is not known. The earliest attestation that these were regarded as having been written by 'John' is found in lrenaeus' Against Heresies, dated about 180 CE. This was the only gospel that mentioned a "disciple whom Jesus loved", and some Church Fathers, in examining the text to establish the disciple's identity, felt that they could rule out all the disciples that the gospel mentioned, except John. A brief sentence in John 21:24 then led to the conclusion that the author of the book was actually the "disciple whom Jesus loved", and therefore John.
The Gospel was popular in gnostic circles and may originally have been a gnostic gospel. It was first attributed to Cerinthus, the founder of a gnostic sect.
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