article_snippet.sent: It is difficult to date the Gospel itself.
article_snippet.sent: One of the difficulties is that there are no references to it at all in antiquity.
article_snippet.sent: our best guess is that it was written at some point in the middle to late second century.
article_snippet.sent: But in any case, the book was probably written too late to have had a chance of competing with Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, all of which are written by the end of the first or, at the latest, the beginning of the second century.