Internal Evidence
One possible construction of the "internal evidence" states that the Beloved Disciple wrote an account of the life of Jesus.However, this disciple died unexpectedly, necessitating that a revised gospel be written.} In other words it may be that John “is the source" of the Johannine tradition but "not the final writer of the tradition." Therefore scholars are no longer looking for the identity of a single writer but for numerous authors whose authorship has been absorbed into the gospel's development over a period of time and in several stages.
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