The Johannine Writings/Part II, Introduction

by Paul Wilhelm Schmiedel

                                    PART II.

ORIGIN AND VALUE OF THE GOSPEL, EPISTLES, AND REVELATION OF JOHN.
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INTRODUCTION.

   AMONG the twelve Apostles of Jesus a prominent place is taken by John,
   son of Zebedee and brother of the first of the two Jameses who were
   included in the band of twelve disciples. Tradition tells us that five
   of the writings contained in the New Testament are by him: the Fourth
   Gospel, the three Epistles of John, and "Revelation." By the side, on
   the one hand, of the first three Gospels, and, on the other, of those
   Epistles which were either composed by the Apostle Paul or have been
   wrongly ascribed to him, these writings form a group of their own in
   the New Testament which is quite as important as the others; and any
   one who proposes to examine them, must of course regard them all
   together.
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