Fourth, if I understand your comments about the church and you are being critical of the church, this could be said about much of the church at the end of the first century. (redeeminggod.com)
Was he the beloved disciple or was the book, as an ancient tradition suggested, written by an elder called John of Ephesus towards the end of the first century? (religion-online.org)
By the end of the first century, the membership of the church was predominantly gentile. (religion-online.org)