You're not going to be here. Welcome again to Meridian magazine's podcast on the Come Follow Me Curriculum. We're so

excited to be with you. We're Scott and Maureen Proctor and it's just fun to be here as husband and wife talking about these wonderful things and we hope that it's blessing and helping your families and helping you as you try to study these materials and come to know the

Savior more than you have before. We're just sitting here in our study

surrounded by books which we love and we're especially grateful for Paul

Cardal for supplying the music for the intro to this

podcast. Today's study is John 1. You know Joseph Smith calls this book the

testimony of John so think of this as his testimony to us as an eyewitness of the life of the Savior

When you really think about that that gets you really excited that we're with someone who was with him and he gives us his words so beautifully. So aren't we blessed to have this first

person account, this witness and testimony of John who was called John the Beloved or John the Revulator.

Now the proposed dates for the writing of the Gospel of John is sometime between

8060 and 80 100 and it's most likely that he wrote his gospel after he wrote the Book of

Revelation.

This was a tumultuous time and a time of apostasy, and so John is addressing some of those

issues that people who would be true to the Lord need to know

and of course he's addressing church members.

This is written after the books of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, which are sometimes called

the Synoptic Gospels because they give a synopsis

of the life of Christ. And instead, John is crafting a very, very special kind of message.

John knew that if all the sayings and doings of Jesus were recorded, quote, even the world

itself could not contain the books that should be written, end quote.

That's from John 2125.

Therefore, he carefully selected the material for his record.

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