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well part of it is because he would have already presumably read the other 3 gospels and so would want to fill in the important theological bits the others missed out.

but I will leave it to a wiser member to give a real answer
 
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Markh said:
well part of it is because he would have already presumably read the other 3 gospels and so would want to fill in the important theological bits the others missed out.

but I will leave it to a wiser member to give a real answer
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Do you know how much later was John written than the other 3?
 
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Well, at least in part, it is attributed to St. John himself.

Do you have a Catholic Bible, DT? Take a look at the introduction to John. Here's a paragraph from mine:

"The fourth gospel is not simply history: the narrative ahs been organized and adapted to serve the evangelist's theological purposes as well. ... Such theological purposes have impelled the evangelist to emphasize motifs that were not so clear in the synoptic account of Jesus' ministry, eg, the implicit emphasis on his divinity."
 
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I've got the Good News (Today's English Version) Bible and it doesn't really give much help. So is this John the apostle? And is this the same John who wrote Revelations?
 
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I've got the Good News (Today's English Version) Bible and it doesn't really give much help. So is this John the apostle? And is this the same John who wrote Revelations?
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John the Apostle/Evangelist. I believe that Revelation is widely believed to have been written by a different John, but the Fathers fell on both sides of the argument, and so the matter is still open.

For: Justin, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Cyprian, Hippolytus
Against: Denis of Alexandria, Eusebius of Caesarea, Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen, John Chrysostom.
 
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John was the beloved disciple of Our Lord, he was the youngest apostle, and he was also the new son of the Blessed Mother - he was her caretaker. Also he had a lot more time to reflect on things since his gospel was written last. These factors alone make it very different.
 
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Mark wrote his first, and Matthew drew on Mark to write his, which "fills things out" a little more. Luke, as he states in Chapter 1 of his Gospel, wants to do a re-work of the whole story, drawing on both the previous two Gospels and on other sources, and put it into a logical order. Ergo, these three are very similar to one another, and thus are called the "synoptic" Gospels, all of them written, IIRC, in the 50's and 60's.

John, writing much later in the late 80's or 90's, is explaining things from a much more personal standpoint, nearly like a personal memoir. Mark, Matthew, and Luke are looking at things from an almost historical standpoint; John's purpose was to reveal that Christ is love, the compassionate Savior.
 
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