Revelation 1:1 states that the Book of Revelation was written by a person called John, and Revelation 1:9 says that he wrote from Patmos, without at any stage saying that he had been exiled to the island. The apostle who leaned on Jesus chest at the Last Supper. He believed it was the house described by Emmerich and where the Virgin Mary had lived the final years of her life. Johns brother was James, also one of the 12 apostles. First, there are no known bones or other relics of St. John. "There, under favor of the deified kings of Pergamos, was his favorite abode and was the worship of Asklepios, under the form of the serpent . The Christian writers of the second and third centuries testify to us as a tradition universally recognized and doubted by no one that the Apostle and Evangelist John lived in Asia Minor in the last decades of the first century and from Ephesus had guided the Churches of that province. Pls note I did not say that absence of evidence is evidence of absence; in fact my very next clause is "in which case he not only preached the gospel but wrote an account of the mission of Jesus." Omissions? Thank you. Revelation to John appears to be a collection of separate units composed by unknown authors who lived during the last quarter of the 1st century, though it purports to have been written by an individual named Johnwho calls himself "the servant" of Jesusat Patmos, in the Aegean Sea. Have a good day and may God be with you! "It is no accident," notes John McRay, "that the letters in Revelation 1-3 are arranged in this same sequence. 22:10-11, John brings to a close his description of his interaction with the angel who helped convey this revelation from God. Are there historical accounts of the character of the people of Sodom and Gomorrah? When John the Forerunner (You may also want to access our article called Who was John the Baptist?) [NKJV]Because he preached the Gospels; but this John is a controversial person not confirmed by any serious document. He exhorts them: "He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death" (verse 11).
