Which John wrote the gospel?

Answer 1

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John the Evangelist, along with his brother James, was one of the 12 Apostles whom Jesus called to follow him. He was the son of Zebedee and Salome and was born in Galilee. He followed in his father's footsteps and became a fisherman. His mother was one of the women who looked after the followers of Jesus.

John was one of the disciples who were closest to Jesus during his ministry. He was the only disciple brave enough to not desert Jesus at his place of crucifixion. While dying on the cross, Jesus committed his mother to John's care.

John seems to have had a close friendship with Peter, and it was to them that the news of the empty tomb was conveyed. John was involved in the ministry of the early church, particularly to the churches in Asia Minor.

John is generally accepted as the writer if the Gospel of John, and he emphasized the deity of Christ, the incarnation, and the great 'I Am' statements were all made by him. His gospel stresses the importance of belief in Christ, and is a favorite among Christians. Frequently, it is the first Gospel translated into other languages. He also has the three epistles of John and the Book of Revelation attributed to him.

Answer 2

John was one of the members chosen by Christ to be a member of the First Presidency of the church after Christ was crucified. He along with Peter and James were given the priesthood authority to administer in all of the ordinances pertaining to the running of the church. This John is not to be confused with John the Baptist who had a special mission to prepare the way for Christs coming.

Answer 3

Like other writings when the author doesn't identify himself by name, there are often clues given in the context that will help to. Consider John 21:19-24 where the author calls himself, 'the disciple whom Jesus loved.' This designation occurs only 4 other times in this book. 'This was the disciple who...wrote these things (21:24). So the author had to be one of the twelve Apostles as he is described as leaning on Jesus' bosom at the Last Supper (Mark 14:17). They simply imply that he was one of the three disciples closest to Jesus: Peter, James, or John in Matthew 17:1. Let's eliminate Peter as 21:20 says that Peter looked back and saw this one Jesus loved. James is out as he was martyred too early to be the author of this Gospel (Acts 12:1, 2). That leaves us with the reasonable conclusion it was John who wrote this book.

In the secular world there are many ideas about the writers and dating of Scripture. This became particularly prevalent in the 19th Century. Only recently has the tools once used against Scripture (Archaeology, carbon dating, etc) are now coming to its defense. Considering that John was at first though to be written around 170 AD, a discovery in 1935 of a scrap of papyrus in Egypt which contained parts of John moved that date to around 125 AD. This would mean an even earlier original writting some suggesting 110 AD to allow time to copy and carry to Egypt. Conservatives date it to 85-95 AD while others even earlier to 70 AD due to a verse in John 5:2 about Jerusalem not being destroyed yet. Lastly, John himself, is thought to have died between 95-100 AD. The whole point here is the questioner is better served reading the book themselves and forming their own opinion.

Answer 4

A:The problem with knowing the authors of the New Testament gospels is that they were all written anonymously and remained anonymous throughout the remainder of the first century and much of the second century. Thus we have no secure information as to who the gospel authors were.

The fourth gospel was finally attributed to the apostle John because it was thought somewhat likely that the 'disciple whom Jesus loved', mentioned only in this gospel, was John, and that whoever wrote the Gospel was probably the same person. However, this would mean that the author was an eyewitness to the mission of Jesus, but modern New Tstament scholars say that the author of John's Gospel could not have been an eyewitness to the events portrayed. We are therefore back in the situation where we do not know who wrote the gospel known to us as John's Gospel, and there is no reason to believe that his name was John. In summary, we do not know who wrote John's Gospel, but his name was probably not John.

Answer 5

The author of the gospel now known as John's Gospel is not actually known. The Gospel was originally anonymous and was only attributed to John, one of the twelve disciples, later in the second century. However, biblical scholars say that the author could not really have been an eyewitness to the events portrayed in the Gospel.

All we know is that John's Gospel was written early in the second century and that the author must have been a Greek-speaking Christian living at that time, probably in a mildly Gnostic community. Although we do not know the person's name, scholars continue to call him John, for convenience.

Answer 6

In The Bible, an evangelist is one of the authors of the four New Testament gospels. The gospels were originally anonymous, but a second-century tradition attributed them the Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. John the evangelist was assumed to be the apostle John. However, modern New Testament scholars say that none of the gospels could have been written by an eyewitness to the events portrayed, so this means that the apostle John could not have been John the evangelist.

We have no good reason to believe that the author of the fourth gospel was a person named John, but we can say that he was not the apostle John. We do not know who John the evangelist really was.

Answer 7

There are two famous John's in the New Testament. John the Baptist, who was Jesus' cousin, and John, who was one of the Twelve Disciples.

Answer 8

The Gospel of John was written by the Apostle John, also known as John the Apostle or John the Evangelist.