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Dec 21, 2022 · The Context of John 21. This whole business of people thinking John may still be walking the earth today can all be traced back to Jesus’s conversation with Peter in John 21:19-23. Contextually, Jesus has just returned from the dead and is wrapping up a nice but tense breakfast with his disciples. As they begin getting ready to move on, Jesus ...
May 29, 2018 · If the Apostle John who wrote Revelation is the same Apostle John who wrote the Gospel of John (and the tone and style of both Books are highly similar) then it is implied that the same Apostle did not die by martyrdom (contrary to what is implied in John 21 for all the Apostles) but old age, since exile took the place, effectively, of captical ...
However, as John Carroll says in The Existential Jesus, at page 228, most scholars assume that John did not write the gospel. Burton L. Mack says in Who Wrote the New Testament , page 215, that before what is now known as John's Gospel was attributed to John, it had already become popular in gnostic circles where it was said that Cerinthus, the founder of a gnostic school, had written it.
- The Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus (A.D. 37-100) The first non-Christian author to mention Jesus is thought to be the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (born Yosef ben Matityahu), who wrote a history of Judaism in about the year 93, the famous Antiquities of the Jews.
- Tacitus (A.D. 56-120) Scholars point to the Roman historian Tacitus for confirmation that the crucifixion of Jesus actually took place. Writing in his Annals, he records the death of Jesus at the hands of Pontius Pilate
- Pliny the Younger (A.D. 62-11) The writings of a Roman governor in Asia Minor, Pliny the Younger, establish that early Christians worshiped Jesus as a god.
- Jewish Rabbinical literature. A number of works of classical Jewish rabbinic writing (the Babylonian Talmud in particular) contain references to Jesus.
Apr 28, 2016 · 2) There may quite possibly have been a difference in the eschatological views of John and Jesus - i.e John's view may have been more of a two part (e.g. see Mathew 3:7-12) where the axe and winnowing fork and fire were "here now" along with the kingdom, i.e. there is now a "hard stop" between the "current evil age" and the "age to come" to be ...
Jan 4, 2022 · The eternal Son of God has always been alive. Jesus was never not alive, even when His body was lying in the tomb. Jesus spoke often of life outside of the material world (John 10:10). He promised eternal life to anyone who believed in Him (John 3:16–18). He explained that the kingdom He had come to establish was not of this world (John 18:36).
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We get the vast majority of our information about John from the pages of the four gospels. We know that John was the younger brother of James and the son of Zebedee (Mark 10:35; Luke 5:10). Though not directly stated, we know that John was called the beloved disciple, or “the disciple whom Jesus loved” (John 21:20-24).
