John in Greek (ancientlibrary.net) ‘In the beginning was the Word’ — so opens John, the fourth gospel of the Greek New Testament, traditionally attributed to the apostle John and written in Koine Greek in the first century AD. Distinct in shape from the other gospels, it narrates a sequence of signs, from water made wine at Cana to the raising of Lazarus, interwoven with long discourses and the ‘I am’ sayings of Jesus.