Re: Gospel of John

John writes:
<< John was around 16 at Jesus's last days. Jesus was born somewhere around
30 AD and died around 60 AD. John lived to be about 90. That puts him past
130 AD. >>

As the others have said, Jesus was born within a few years of 0 and died
around the 30s CE. We know hardly anything reliable about John the apostle,
and there's not a very good reason to believe he wrote the book aside from
its being the tradition.

And if the assessment in Acts 4.13 is to be believed, John the apostle
probably wouldn't have written such a beautiful and carefully-crafted book.
There, a fancy council sees John and Peter, and "katalabomenoi hoti
anthrôpoi agrammatoi eisin kai idiôtai," or, "comprehended that they were
unlettered (agrammatoi) men and unskilled/commoners (idiôtai)."

-robbie
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Received on Fri Jul 25 01:15:01 2003