| Title: | John, Gospel according to |
| Original Title: | Jean, Evangile de saint |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 8 (1765), p. 505 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Susan Emanuel |
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| Citation (MLA): | "John, Gospel according to." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Susan Emanuel. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2011. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.640>. Trans. of "Jean, Evangile de saint," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 8. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "John, Gospel according to." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Susan Emanuel. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.640 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Jean, Evangile de saint," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 8:505 (Paris, 1765). |
JOHN, (Gospel of St. John) name of one of the canonical books of the New Testament that contains the history of the live and miracles of Jesus Christ, written by the apostle St. John, son of Zebedee and Salome.
It is believed that this apostle was extremely old when around the year of our Lord 97 the bishops and faithful of Asia urgently asked him to write the story of what he had seen and hear of Our Savior, and he answered their desire. He worked principally on reporting what serves to establish the divinity of the Word, against certain current heretics who denied it. The sublimity of the knowledge that reign over the beginning of this gospel have given St. John the surname of theologian .
Apart from this gospel, and the apocalypse of which we have spoken under this title, this apostle has composed three letters, which the Church recognizes as canonic. Some apocryphal writing has been attributed to him, for example, a book of his claimed voyages; acts which the Encratites the Manichees, and the Priscilianists used; a book of the death and assumption of the Virgin; a symbol that it is claimed was given to St. Gregory of Neocaesarea by the Holy Virgin and by St. John . This symbol was mentioned in the fifth ecumenical council, but the acts and the history we have just mentioned have always been generally recognized as apocrypha. Calmet, Dictionnaire de la Bible.