Some critics think that John, the writer of this gospel, was not the disciple who accompanied Jesus, but one of the elders of the church of Ephesus, who was a disciple of the apostle John, and that it was written later.
Baadhi ya wapinzani wa ukweli wanafikiri kuwa Yohana, mwandishi wa injili hii siye yule mwanafinzi aliyefuatana na Yesu, bali mmoja wa wazee wa kanisa la Efeso aliyekuwa mwanafunzi wa Yohana na kwamba iliandikwa muda baadaye.