


The Gospel frequently uses words that are usually translated as witness, testimony, to bear witness, or to testify. Hovering over the references below will bring up the NET Bible version on each of these. This article may get complicated unless the readers look up some passages. The authors of the Gospels are also called evangelists. The authors are sometimes called synoptists. Matthew, Mark, and Luke have a lot of passages in common, so they are called the synoptic Gospels ( synoptic means viewed together). Since these articles in the series can be read as stand-alones, here are my reminders, for the true beginner to the Gospels. This article, Part Twelve, challenges those assumptions. It is also thought to be a strictly theological document, written by a disciple or a committee of disciples who really did not witness the ministry of Jesus. Often the Gospel of John has been interpreted as having only spiritual truths that are not anchored in history, in time and place.
