gJohn has multiple authors/editors. More names does not mean it’s more likely to be an eyewitness. Odd Numbers: Literary Creativity: Loaves from 2 Kings: Seamless Tunic and Parallelism:

C. K. Barrett concludes: “There is no evidence for his [John’s] residence in Ephesus in any orthodox Christian writer earlier than Irenaeus. It cannot but appear probable that if John had been alive in Ephesus (a great center of Christian life and letters) in or near A.D. 100 some trace of the fact would have…

Dustin Smith (2015) claims that several passages in John, like John 8:58 and 17:5, are actually referring to figurative pre-existence in the mind of God rather than saying that Jesus literally pre-existed his birth. He cites passages from Jewish and Christian literature to show that things were thought of as existing before their creation: That…

In his Hermeneia commentary, Haenchen adds in brackets “of the category divinity” to explain the sense of “divine” here. He points to the interesting usage in Philo of Alexandria (De Somniis 1.229-230), which was likely influential on the Logos concept in John. Philo here says that the most ancient Logos is not ὁ θεὸς but…

This paper claims that at least 8 scholars according to Brown “agreed to omitting [verses] 6-8, 15.” Brown suggests that the “evidence is inconclusive” for the rest of the prologue.Ehrman also has written that he doesn’t think 1-18 was written by the same author as the rest of the gospel. He suggests that John is…

German theologian Rudolf Bultmann, in his famous and still widely cited commentary on John, wrote many decades ago:The thesis has been represented, occasionally even in very early times but strongly from the beginning of this century, that the original order of the text [of John] has been disturbed, through an interchange of leaves or by…

The Tyndale New Testament Commentaries Volume IV on John (Colin G Kruse) also notes that early readers may have understood it to be a polemic against Domitian who demanded that people worship him as Lord and God. This makes sense, Thomas’ confession acts as a theological climax to both John’s narrative and christological project. It…

Goodacre makes the point in a recent Mythvision podcast that the gospel of John is the same written phenomena as the Synoptic gospels, follows the same structure, and it is not credible this is coincidence. It’s much the same reason he believes that Luke copied Matthew – Luke follows Matthew’s structure where Mark didn’t (i.e.…

A Refutation to John 5:2 – https://biblicalfoundations.org/was-johns-gospel-written-prior-to-ad-70/Peter Walker, in his important book Jesus and the Holy City (Eerdmans, 1996, p. 197), says it well:“As a result, if any of his readers felt bereft of the Temple and of the spiritual focus provided by Jerusalem, John would have encouraged them not to mourn the loss of…

Dating of John 📜The dating of John is highly based off the difference of Christology, Christology is the development of the Christian doctrine of how he became presumed as God, as we can see in gJohn, gJohn thinks of Jesus very highly in verses such as John 8:58, as the “Before Abraham, I am” sequence.However,…