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John the disciple of Jesus did not write any books in The Bible.

The gospel known as John's Gospel was actually written anonymously and only attributed to the apostle John later in the second century, when the Church Fathers were attempting to establish who wrote each of the gospels. Scholars say that John's Gospel was written during the second century, inspired by Luke's Gospel and with some material taken directly from Mark's Gospel - hardly what one would expect from an eyewitness to the events written about. John appears to have originated in a Gnostic Christian community and may have been modified subsequently to make it more acceptable to a centrist Christian belief.

The Johannine Community appears to have undergone a split at some stage, with some members joining a centrist Christian community, and the Epistles of John were written in response to that split - again, not an issue one would expect the apostle John to have been concerned in.

The Book of Revelation was signed by a person called John and so, during the late second century, was attributed to the apostle John. However, it clearly was written by a different author to either the Gospel or the epistles of John. Nothing is known of this author and modern scholars tend to refer to him as 'John of Patmos'.

AnswerGospel of John, 1 John, 2 John, the Revelation (Unvieling of Jesus Christ)
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