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 Cardol for supplying the music for the intro to this podcast.

Today's study is John One.

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 Revolator?

Now the proposed date for the writing of the Gospel of John is sometime between 8060 and

80100 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 us synopsis of the life of Christ and instead John is

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