Samantha Rinne
Resident Genderfluid Writer/Artist
I mentioned this point to a member yesterday who had been quoting from John's gospel, and there it was, another thread for your consideration.
That Apostle John was not Disciple John could be argued because of where he is reported to have lived... on a kind of prison island called Patmos, off the Ephesian coast. There's also the approximate dating of this gospel compared with the approximate age of the youthful disciple in AD/CE 28-30... how old would he have been when this gospel was written and comparisons with the projected average ages of Galilean peasants in early first century Northern Palestine. But not here on this thread!
This thread is dedicated to comparing the accounts as reported in the synoptic gospels with John's account, just that. I'll offer evidence, a single exhibit in a single post, and will offer one post each day. I'll try to answer all questions and challenges as best I can.
The first exhibit will be offered after this OP.
There's a book called The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved, that actually asserts that the Gospel of John is not written by John. Ir compares the somewhat arrogant stiyle of one of the "sons of thunder" to the rather meek literary voice of this writing. The conclusion was that two different people wrote these.
So who? Well thet also noticed that talk of this disciple didn't start until Lazarus was raised. Also, the disciple believed after seeing the burial wrappings set aside. He also was someone who was a sort of celebrity (rising from the dead would do this), because they let him in to where Jesus was at one point, while the others had trouble entering.