General letters and Revelation
3 John
A letter to Gaius, praising his hospitality to traveling teachers and rebuking Diotrephes.
It is a small window into church life near the end of the first century: travelling teachers who depended on the hospitality of local believers, and a church leader who refused to welcome them.
Kinds of writing
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Key verses
No greater joy. I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.
3 John 1:4 (World English Bible)
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Dating notes
This timeline plots AD 92. The span is an estimate; Scripture doesn’t say when the book was written.