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In the BibleChristian tradition says that John was one of Christ's apostles, and was the only one to live into his old age; he was not martyred for his faith. John is associated with Ephesus (where his reputed grave is), where he was said to live, caring 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. Question of authorship
Numerous modern scholars dispute that these works were by the same person.[citation needed] 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" repeatedly referred to in the work. The author of this Gospel is also sometimes presumed to be the author of 1 John, and rarely also 2 John and 3 John, though the 4th century Council of Rome decreed that the author of 1 John and that of 2 and 3 John should be regarded as distinct individuals, and modern textual criticism often agrees. 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.[citation needed] 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. Some modern scholars believe that the Apostle John wrote none of these texts [1].
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