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The Gospel of John is the fourth of the canonical gospels. The book went through two to three stages, or "editions", before reaching its current form, at the latest, around AD 80–100. It is written anonymously, although it identifies an unnamed "disciple whom Jesus loved" as the source of its traditions.

The Gospel of John is closely related in style and content to the three Johannine epistles, and most scholars treat the four books, along with the Book of Revelation, as a single corpus of Johannine literature, albeit not from the same author.

The discourses contained in this gospel seem to be concerned with issues of the church–synagogue debate at the time of composition. It is notable that in John, the community appears to define itself primarily in contrast to Judaism, rather than as part of a wider Christian community. Though Christianity started as a movement within Judaism, it gradually separated from Judaism because of mutual opposition between the two religions. wikipedia