In contrast, the writer Robert Gagnon has argued that the Greek word translated as "loved" is agape (used, for example, in John ; "for God so loved the world"), rather than the Greek word referring to sexual love, [REF].
The separate and non-canonical "Secret Gospel of Mark"-fragments of which were contained in the controversial Mar Saba letter by Clement of Alexandria-states that Jesus taught the secrets of the Kingdom of God alone to a partially clothed youth during one night.