to which he expected his Gospel to circulate and which constituted his intended readership. The audience, though relatively large, is still specific. This chapter has proposed, not merely that the implied audience of a Gospel is larger than the current consensus allows, but that it is indefinite rather than specific. This is a difference of kind, not just of degree, from the current consensus. The evangelists, I have argued, did not write for specific churches they knew or knew about, not even for