PART II.

ORIGIN AND VALUE OF THE GOSPEL, EPISTLES, AND REVELATION OF JOHN.
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INTRODUCTION.

  AMONG the twelve Apostles of Jesus a prominent place is taken by John,
  son of Zebedee and brother of the first of the two Jameses who were
  included in the band of twelve disciples. Tradition tells us that five
  of the writings contained in the New Testament are by him: the Fourth
  Gospel, the three Epistles of John, and "Revelation." By the side, on
  the one hand, of the first three Gospels, and, on the other, of those
  Epistles which were either composed by the Apostle Paul or have been
  wrongly ascribed to him, these writings form a group of their own in
  the New Testament which is quite as important as the others; and any
  one who proposes to examine them, must of course regard them all
  together.
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