Craig Blomberg cited: Epistles of John contain no quotations of Jesus despite being written after the Gospel of John
Mike uses this scholarly observation as evidence that the absence of Jesus-quotations in epistles is normal and expected, not a red flag.
Mike quotes Craig Blomberg from 'The Historical Reliability of the Gospels,' page 284: 'It is typically agreed that the Epistle of John came later than the fourth gospel and was written by someone who had full knowledge of the gospel, yet one finds no quotations or unambiguous allusions to Jesus's words in First, Second, or Third John.' This demonstrates that epistle writers who clearly knew Gospel content did not necessarily quote it.
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