Juan Evangelista

John the Evangelist is the conventional denomination of the author of the Gospel according to St. John.

The tradition also considers him the author of the other writings called "Joánicos", all of them New Testaments: the Apocalypse -whose author is "John" (John of Patmos)- and three epistles whose emitter is "John" (1 John, 2 John and 3 John); although modern exegesis has questioned the attribution to the same person of the authorship of this whole group of texts, and little can be determined

John the Evangelist, as a Christian saint, is no different from the figure of the apostle John and that of the disciple whom Jesus loved.1 Such a character, of which only one is known through the Gospel of John, is also the one who was reclining very close to Jesus and reclined over Jesus (in the iconography he is sometimes represented lying on his chest) during the Last Supper;2 and to which Christ entrusts to his mother

More problematic is his identification with John the Priest or John the Elder, which is mentioned in the fragments of Papias. The Gospel of John was anonymous in origin, and it is not even certain that the name of the author was John the Evangelist, although the oldest Christian tradition assigns that name to it from almost the first moment.

• It seems that, in any case, the author or authors of this gospel were either Jews who wrote for an audience that was not familiar with Jewish customs. According to tradition, John did so for the seven churches of Asia.4 In terms of style, the author (or authors) of the Gospel of John would be, of the four evangelists, the most poetic and conceptual. It is considered the precedent of Christian mystical theology.