John Gospelof St

John, Gospel of St., the last of the four canonical gospels, the authorship of which is attributed to the apostle John by many of the early fathers, including Theophilus of Antioch, Irenaeus, etc., the latter thinking that he also wrote the Apocalypse and Epistles. It is supposed to have been written at Ephesus in Asia, according to Irenaeus, against the doctrine of Cerinthus, and this probably is the reason for the number of explanatory remarks on Jewish facts and customs. St. John is different from the rest, in laying the principal scenes of Christ's life in Judaea, and also because many events and sayings chronicled in the synoptic Gospels, such as the sermon on the mount and the agony in the garden, are left out and new persons and places are introduced.