It appears that most of the receivers of this gospel were Gentile believers because John spread out before them many details of Jewish life, which Jews did not need to have explained to them. Moreover, John did not depend in his gospel on words of Jesus written at that time in the Aramaic language, translating them into Greek like the rest of the evangelists.
Yaonekana kuwa wengi waliopokea ujumbe wake walikuwa ni waumini toka kwa mataifa, maana Yohana aliwasimulia mengi juu ya mapokeo ya kiyahudi, ambayo Wayahudi wenyewe wasingehitaji kuelezwa tena. Zaidi ya hapo, Yohana hakutegemea katika injili yake maneno ya Yesu yaliyoandikwa wakati ule wa lugha ya Kiaramaiki na kuyatafsiri kwa kigriki, jinsi wainjilisti wengine walivyofanya.