Christianity: Details about 'John The Evangelist'
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John the Evangelist (? - c. 110; יוחנן "The LORD is merciful", Standard Hebrew Yoḥanan, Tiberian Hebrew Yôḥānān) is the name used to refer to the author of the Gospel of John. Tradition has identified him with John the Apostle and with John of Patmos, the author of the Book of Revelation.Tradition says that he was one of Christ's disciples, the only one to live into old age and not be martyred for his faith. John is associated with Ephesus (where his reputed grave is), and in Ephesus John lived with and cared for Mary, the mother of Jesus. After a long life he was exiled to Patmos between 90-95, where he wrote the Book of Revelation. Numerous modern scholars dispute that these were the same person (see authorship of the Johannine works). The most widely accepted view is that - whether or not the same man wrote all the Johannine literature - it all came out of the same community in Asia Minor, which had some connection to John. The author of the fourth Gospel never identifies himself. He is generally assumed to be the "beloved disciple" repeated referred to in the work. The author of this Gospel is also sometimes presumed to be the author of other books in the New Testament: 1 John, 2 John, and 3 John. There are also schools of thought which attribute some of these five works (always including The Gospel of John) to John the Apostle and others (usually including the 2nd and 3rd epistles) to another John. Collectively, the Gospel, the three Epistles, and Revelation are known as Johannine literature, and there is some internal textual evidence to suggest they may have been authored by the same person (see textual criticism). Of the Johannine literature, Revelation bears the least grammatical similarity to the Gospel.
See also
Johannes (Evangelist) Saint Jean l'Évangéliste יוחנן_כותב_הבשורה 福音記者ヨハネ Johannes (evankelista)
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