Abstract
The literary relationship between John and the Synoptics has continued, in recent years, to evoke passionate and critical discussiond The question being addressed, inter alia, is how the Gospel of John, written much later as is currently maintained in Johannine scholarship, shares a number of traditions in common with the Synoptics. A close examination of parallel texts has led modern scholars to abandon some of the earliest theories that sought to explain the relationship between John and the Synoptics, such as those of the Supplementary Hypothesis, which proposed that the Fourth evangelist wrote his Gospel to supplement the Synoptics.