A man named John wrote the book of Revelation on an island in the Argean Sea named Patmos. Domitian banished John to the isle of Patmos because of the Christian stand. This
person is believed to be John the Apostle of Jesus Christ, author of the fourth gospel. There has been some confusion over this, due to the fact that John does not designate himself as an apostle and, when mentioning them, he does not include himself in that group. Rather he claims to be a prophet and his book to be a prophecy. However, the early churches as well as early theologians claim the author as John the Apostle. In 480 A.D., five passages written by Iraneous mentioned John specifically as the author, and in the middle of the 2nd century Justin Marty quoted verbatim "attributing the authorship to John, an apostle of
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