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Does John 21:24-25 indicate John didn't write this Gospel?
The below 2 verses in the Gospel of John seem to indicate that "John" was not the true author of this Gospel.
This intertextual proof seems to indicate that it was him because of the usage of ...
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Was Papias the scribe who wrote the Gospel of John?
It was very common practice in antiquity for the author of a book or letter to use a scribe/amanuensis (see descriptions in letters of Cicero, for example), and the use of a scribe is attested or ...
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Was the Beloved Disciple the author of the Fourth Gospel?
One very common interpretation of the Gospel of John is that the Beloved Disciple was the author of the book. (Presumably, he was interested in obscuring his identity for some reason.) But other ...
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Is John 21 a later addition to the Fourth Gospel?
Many readers have noted that John 20:30-31 makes for a fitting ending to the Gospel.
Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. But ...
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What external evidence do we have for who wrote the Gospel of John?
It seems the Gospel of John was written in the late 80s or early 90s.
If John was around Jesus age when they both met, then he would have been 80 or 90 years when writing it.
In that time, people ...
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Is John 21:24 contradicting Luke 1:3?
At the beginning of his gospel, Luke states that (1:3):
3 With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you....
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Were 1 John and John’s gospel written by the same person?
I’m interested in internal evidence based on the linguistic/stylistic and (if you like) thematic patterns of the two books. I am less interested for the purpose of this question in whether either was ...
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Internal Evidence of Authorship of the Fourth Gospel
By the "fourth gospel," I mean the gospel commonly attributed to an "apostle John."
However, is there actually an internal evidence that someone named John wrote the fourth gospel, as is commonly ...
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Does John 21:20-24 indicate that the original author of the Fourth Gospel was dead?
Early tradition says that the author lived on for some time after the composition, while many post-eighteenth century critical scholars seem to take for granted that the author (if it even is the ...
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What are the arguments of scholars who suppose that the Gospel according to John does not go back to John the disciple of Jesus?
Many authors, even some who write the preface to acknowledged Bible editions, suppose that the Gospel according to John has not been written by John, the former disciple of Jesus. Although such ...
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