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What evidence suggests that John was closest of all the disciples to Christ?
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The fourth gospel, now known as John's Gospel has an otherwise unnamed disciple who is always referred to as the 'disciple whom Jesus loved'. Whoever this disciple was would seem to have been the closest to Jesus.
The second-century Church Fathers noticed that the disciple John was not mentioned by name in the fourth gospel, and on this basis decided that the beloved disciple must be John. They surmised that it was modesty that prevented the author from using the name John, as a result of which they decided that the previously anonymous gospel must have been written by John himself.
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