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The second-century Church Fathers decided that the person called John, who wrote the Book of Revelation, must have been the apostle John. They then had to find an explanation for John being on the island of Patmos, preferably one involving great heroism or a miracle. A popular tradition about John is that Emperor Domitian ordered him brought as a prisoner to Rome and thrown into a vat of boiling oil. John was unharmed by the boiling oil, and he was eventually exiled under guard in Patmos.
Not only is the alleged episode of the boiling oil entirely implausible, the alleged exile proves it to be so. If John was immune to harm, as shown by his escape from the boiling oil, he could scarcely have been restrained by armed guards, who also would have been totally unable to harm him. So, not only was John never boiled in oil, The Bible does not even claim that he was.
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In an unlikely Christian tradition, the apostle John was sentenced to be boiled in oil, but survived without injury. He was then exiled to the island of Patmos, where he wrote the Book of Revelation, which was first attributed to him late in the second century. However, the existence of a tradition such as this does not mean it really happened.The story raises questions such as why boiling in oil was chosen, other than because it was possible to imagine John escaping unscathed, as could not be imagined in the case of beheading, spearing or crucifixion. Why was John apparently not tortured and permanently disabled before being placed in the oil? If the oil did not work, why was he then exiled rather than simply being speared or crucified? How did they manage to exile John? If he was immune to harm, the soldiers could not have forced him to accompany them to Patmos.The story of John being boiled in oil and exiled to Patmos is an extreme example of the literary technique of hagiology that began with Acts of the Apostles and developed over the early centuries of Christianity. Its primary purpose was the veneration of saints, with a secondary purpose of explaining how John came to write Revelation, as was by then supposed.
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Was John blind when he wrote Revelation?
A:We know nothing about John of Patmos apart from his authorship of the Book of Revelation, but presumably he was able to see, in order to be able to write. Because the author of the Book of Revelation identified himself as 'John', the book was once attributed to the apostle John. However, scholars say that he is most unlikely to have been the real author, and for this reason now refer to the uthor of Revelation as John of Patmos. The fanciful tradition that the apostle John was boiled in oil then exiled to Patmos was needed in order to get him to Patmos so that he could write the book there. Since this John was not the author, we do not need the oil, nor the exile. Without all these punishments, there is no reason to imagine John of Patmos as being blinded.
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There is no evidence that John was ever exiled to Patmos. The John who wrote Revelation (apparently not the apostle John) might have been on the island out of choice.Brian Mark Rapske (Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture, Exiles, Islands, and the Identity and Perspective of John in Revelation) says that there is no evidence that Patmos was a penal colony, although it certainly would have been suitable for use as a place of exile. There were were no mines on ancient Patmos, although a later tradition says that John was made to work in the mines.
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