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*The Life by Leontius along with several interpolations from other sources can be found in Dawes and Baynes, ''Three Byzantine Saints'' (Crestwood, NY: 1977).
*A good recent summary can be found in the new Synaxarion written by Hieromonk Macarius of [[Simonopetra Monastery (Athos)|Simonopetra]], Christopher Hookway (trans.) ''The Synaxarion: The Lives of the Saints of the Orthodox Church: Volume 2: November, December'' (Ormylia Greece 1999) under the entry for November 12.
*John's relations with non-Chalcedonians are treated briefly in [[John Meyendorff ]] ''Imperial Unity and Christian Divisions: The Church 450-680 A.D.'' (Crestwood NY 1989). Meyendorff's statement that John is venerated as a saint by the Coptic and Ethiopian Churches seems to be a confusion with John IV, Coptic Pope of Alexandria of the late 7th century, also surnamed the "Merciful" but presented as a staunch opponent of Chalcedonian Christology (see the ''Coptic Encyclopedia'').
*The most recent scholarly study of [[Leontius of Neapolis]], the author of the main Life of John, is Vincent Deroche, ''Études sur Léontios de Néapolis,'' (Uppsala 1995).
*Online, entries can be found on Wikipedia at [[Wikipedia:St. John the Merciful|St. John the Merciful]] and on the Catholic Encyclopedia under [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08486a.htm St. John the Almsgiver].
