“... William Sanford LaSor was impressed with numerous phrases unique to Qumran that reappear only in the Fourth Gospel and the Johannine Epistles: ‘to do the truth’ (1QS 1.5; 5.3; 8.2; compare John 3:21); ‘walking in truth’ (1QS 4.6, 15; compare 2 John 4; 3 John 3); and, ‘witnesses of truth’ (1QS 8.6; compare John 5:33; 18:37). As D. Moody Smith correctly reports, ‘[T]hat the Qumran scrolls attest a form of Judaism whose conceptuality and terminology tally in some respects quite closely with the Johannine is a commonly acknowledged fact.’ John Painter also astutely concludes ‘that the context in which the Johannine tradition was shaped ... is best known to us in the Qumran texts.’ Craig Evans rightly judges, ‘The relevance of the Scrolls for Johannine studies can scarcely be doubted.’ ...”