The Seven "I AM"s of John's Gospel

Who wrote the Gospel of John? We don't know for sure. The evidence of the text itself suggests that it was written on the basis of the witness of one of Jesus' twelve apostles, present at the last supper and the empty tomb. However the gospel never names him, only referring to him as the Beloved Disciple. Long-standing church tradition identifies him as John the son of Zebedee, one of the three apostles who, in the synoptic accounts, seem to form an inner circle among the Twelve, accompanying Jesus to the mountain of the Transfiguration or taken apart by him at Gethsemane, and no modern attempt to identify him with another figure in the gospel story has found many followers. [Read more] ...