| | * John mentions the banning of Christians (followers of Jesus) from the synagogues, which happened around A.D. 90 (see Council of Jamnia). | | * John mentions the banning of Christians (followers of Jesus) from the synagogues, which happened around A.D. 90 (see Council of Jamnia). |
| − | There is also a school of thought that John, and the entire [[New Testament]] for that matter, were written before the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, believing that heresies had always been around. John 5:2 is cited, where John speaks of a pool with "is" instead of was, even though it was destroyed in A.D. 70. (It should be noted that John sometimes uses the present tense to describe situations that have passed in other instances.)<ref>NIV Study Bible, Zondervan, 1985</ref> | + | There is a school of thought that John, and the entire [[New Testament]] for that matter, were written before the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, believing that heresies had always been around. John 5:2 is cited, where John speaks of a pool with "is" instead of was, even though it was destroyed in A.D. 70. (It should be noted that John sometimes uses the present tense to describe situations that have passed in other instances.)<ref>NIV Study Bible, Zondervan, 1985</ref> |