Assertion: apostle | /r/HasProperty | john
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text: They agree that the apostle John would have still been alive throughout this period (see G.C. Brewer’s discussion as quoted in Bales, pp.
text: When the last apostle, John, died at the end of the first century, the office of apostle ceased to exist in the church.
text: Since Bartholomew is never mentioned in the Gospel of John, and a man named Nathanael (who doesn’t appear in the synoptic gospels) appears to be an apostle (John 21:1–2), some traditions have assumed Bartholomew and Nathanael are the same person.
text: James may have written the very first epistle or letter in the New Testament although we know that the Apostle John had 3 that he wrote (1, 2, and 3 John) and
text: We remember the words of the apostle John who said, “You have overcome the Wicked One because you are strong in the Word.
text: We see that this was the first of a number of ESSENTIALS, if we read the writings of the apostle John:
text: Until the 19th century, the authorship of the Gospel of John had been attributed to the Apostle John.
text: Ancient sources may or may not refer to the Apostle John by several other names including John of Patmos (because he was banished to the island of Patmos), John the Evangelist, John the Elder, John the Presbyter, and the Beloved Disciple, though it is unclear if all (or any!) of these names do in fact refer to this John.
text: So who was the Apostle John?
text: Interestingly, the Apostle John is mentioned by name in every gospel except the one named after him.
text: And some ofthe earliest Christians claimed this eyewitness was the Apostle John.
text: There’s good reason to believe that the Apostle John at least wrote some of the gospel that bears his name, but scholars still dispute his authorship.
text: Some have argued that the gospel is the work of a later Christian writer who wanted to appear to be the Apostle John.
text: The Book of Revelation is traditionally attributed to the Apostle John, but Christians have contested this since as early as the fourth century.
text: The Apostle John is sometimes referred to as John of Patmos, though some argue that John of Patmos was actually a different person.
text: In the early second century, Justin Martyr was the first to suggest this John was the Apostle John, and since then, many Christians have presumed that John the Apostle was exiled to Patmos for preaching the gospel.
text: But Irenaeus, who lived earlier than Jerome and Eusebius, references 1 and 2 John and claims he is quoting the Apostle John.
text: Some of the earliest references to the letters attribute them to the Apostle John, and church tradition has held him as the author ever since.
text: The Apostle John is a well-known gospel figure.
text: We may never know with absolute certainty how much the Apostle John wrote himself.
text: The Apostle John is the author of five New Testament books: the gospel of John, the three short epistles that also bear his name (1, 2, and 3 John) and the book of Revelation.
text: Not to be confused with John the Baptist, the Apostle John is the brother of James , another of the twelve disciples of Jesus.
text: so it is believed that they each went into different parts of the civilized world and all but the Apostle John, died a martyrs death.
text: Tradition says that the Apostle John continued preaching even when so enfeebled with age as to be obliged to be carried into the assembly; and that, not being able to deliver any long discourse, his custom was to say in every meeting, “My dear children, love one another.
text: The Apostle John was touched by the love of God and his ministry was consistent in sharing that love.
text: Many authors refer to themselves in the third person as “the writer” or “this reporter” but the Apostle John referred to himself as “the disciple whom Jesus loved.
text: While earlier writers mentioned John Mark as a companion of Peter and noted that he wrote Peter’s version of events, the closest we have to “first-hand” knowledge comes from our old friend Eusebius of Caesarea, who possibly traced the evidence back to the Apostle John.
text: He claimed that Papias of Hierapolis (a church father who lived from about 60–163 AD) said John the Elder (presumably the Apostle John)
text: The Apostle John did not use the word
text: The Apostle John did not use the word
text: We conclude then, that by the time the last apostle, John, died some time after publishing the Book of Revelation, all the apostles commissioned by Jesus were gone.
text: The Apostolic Church lasted from approximately 30 to 100 A.D., and ended with the death of the Apostle John...
text: We do know, however, that the apostle James was the eldest brother of the apostle John and that their father's name was Zebedee (their mother's name was Salome.)
text: The apostle John clearly said that the Word was God.
text: we have a passage written by the apostle John under God’s inspiration that emphasizes the family relationship of the two members of the God family.
text: The apostle John was later freed and returned to what is now modern-day Turkey.
text: This is just as Jesus declared that He would give His words to His Apostles (John 17:8), and those who listened to Him would listen to His Apostles (John 15:20).
text: This is just as Jesus declared that He would give His words to His Apostles (John 17:8), and those who listened to Him would listen to His Apostles (John 15:20).
text: The Rejection of the Apostle John
text: These factors of rank, one would normally think, would grant to the apostle John a great deal of authority among Christians in the last three decades of the 1st century.
text: There remains a genuine letter of Clement, Bishop of Rome, written to the Christian congregation at Corinth about 95 C.E., which contains excellent moral and ethical teachings reflecting the doctrinal standards of the New Testament, yet the letter fails to mention the apostle John even once, or that he had any authority to deal with matters then affecting the Corinthians in Corinth.
text: The interesting point that moderns find baffling is the fact that, in all probability, the apostle John was still alive and about to canonize the Book of Revelation when Clement composed his letter to Corinth.
text: Indeed, when one surveys the words within the 65 chapters that Clement wrote to the Corinthians, one would not believe that the apostle John was even alive or had ever existed.
text: There is no appeal to the apostle John to help the Corinthians in this matter — either to John’s writings or to his personal authority.
text: The very things for which Clement was criticizing the Corinthians were the things the apostle John talked about the most in his epistles.
text: This is strange because the subject of brotherly love is that with which the apostle John is most famous in the biblical canon — there are a total of 42 references to “love” in his Gospel, and on 46 occasions John emphasizes “love” in his three short epistles.
text: “distinguished apostles” (47:1–4), but he did not grace the apostle John with such distinction.
text: Again, there is not one reference to the apostle John .
text: Polycarp even taught that Christians ought to “return to the word handed on to us from the beginning” 6 which was what the apostle John demanded in his epistles.
text: Since Irenaeus as a youth had heard Polycarp speak about his conversations with the apostle John, 8 this is powerful evidence that Polycarp was one who had a deep respect for John and his authority.
text: Polycarp stated most emphatically that he, and the other Bishops of Asia Minor, had been taught by the apostle John to observe the time of the Eucharist on the fourteenth day of the first Jewish month — on the day before the Passover of the Jews.
text: This was a clear example of Roman authorities expressing a superiority over the opinions of the apostle John.
text: But it does indicate that the opinions which came from those who followed directly in the footsteps of the apostle John in Asia Minor and the eastern region of the empire had no influence upon the clerics at Rome.
text: Why is it that the main doctrinal positions seem to be the same (or the differences were of no major consequence) and yet the authorities of Greece and Italy (from the records we have available) pay no attention to the apostle John or his authority?
text: Diotrephes was not accepting John’s authority, and he was casting out of the congregation those who wanted to rely on the apostle John.
text: It seems almost impossible for some of us moderns to believe that someone like Diotrephes could continue to call himself a Christian while rejecting the authority of the apostle John to his face.
text: And since John no doubt took seriously his belief that he was essentially an apostle commissioned to go to the Jewish people, and not the Gentiles like Paul (Galatians 2:9), and that he reinforced his belief by commanding his representatives on tour to take no support from “the Gentiles” (3 John 7), this made it difficult for all sections of the Christian community (especially in Gentile areas such as Rome and Corinth) to get along amicably with the apostle John.
text: There was another factor in the life of the apostle John that made him to be held in suspicion more than any of the other apostles.
text: That book was written by the apostle John but the information in it purportedly came from none other than Christ himself (Revelation 1:1–2).
text: They were most especially upset with the apostle John whose visionary experiences as reported in what we call the Book of Revelation seemed totally wrong for their time.
text: And in the Book of Revelation there is the teaching that prophetic events dealing with the time of the end were given to the apostle John in two phases of time.
text: The exact length of time between the two phases is not revealed in the book itself, but it was made clear that the apostle John within his lifetime would experience two periods of time of prophetic revelation.
text: When this happened, the apostle John received further instructions about a future revelation dealing with the end-times that would be given to him.
text: The truth was, even the first draft of the Book of Revelation, which was given to the apostle John somewhere in the period from 56 C.E. to 60 C.E., was not speaking about prophetic events to take place in the middle of the 1st century.
text: Even in the period from 70 C.E. to 96 C.E., to the time when the apostle John received the final edition of the Book of Revelation, there were survivors of the late war with the Romans who continued to distrust any prophetic teachings whatever and especially to put any faith in an apostle like John who failed to tell them (or at least he apparently failed to tell them) that the prophecies within his visionary experiences were designed to be fulfilled some 2000 years in the future.
text: This passage appears to be an attempt by a very early Christian author to properly interpret what the apostle John meant in his first version of the Book of Revelation when he stated that Christ would rule for a thousand years after his return.
text: We find that the teaching of the apostle John in the Book of Revelation (though much suspicion was cast on it and John at the time of the great disappointment), was finally redeemed and acknowledged by many early Christians as divine literature after all.
text: The apostle John writes this word "proskuneo" (worship/bowing) in the Greek present tense.
text: The apostle John wants us to know this beast is a demon by telling us his origins.
text: Peter, and that James was martyred as early as 44 AD (Acts 12:2) it has been widely believed that the author was the Apostle John (though some believe he was pretending to be).
text: The Apostle John was one of the "pillars" of the Jerusalem church after Jesus' death.
text: Most modern scholars believe that the apostle John wrote none of these works, although some, such as J.A.T. Robinson, F. F. Bruce, Leon Morris, and Martin Hengel, hold the apostle to be behind at least some, in particular the gospel.
text: Seeing this review reminded me of one of the key debates in discussions of the emerging New Testament canon, namely whether Papias, the bishop of Hierapolis in the early second century, knew the apostle John.
text: Shanks makes the case in his book, a case that has been made by a number of other scholars before him (e.g., Robert Gundry) that in fact Papias got his information from the most reliable of sources, namely the apostle John himself.
text: When Papias mentions the name John a second time in the statement above, it is best understood as a reference back to the apostle John due to the fact that both are called “elder” and the anophoric use of the article which points back to the prior John (Shanks, 19-21).