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John 3~Hey, Gaius! Watch your back!

John 3~Hey, Gaius! Watch your back!

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The Third Epistle of John, often referred to as Third John and
written 3 John or III John, is the third-to-last book of the New
Testament and the Christian Bible as a whole, and attributed to
John the Evangelist, traditionally thought to be the author of the
Gospel of John and the other two epistles of John. The Third
Epistle of John is a private letter composed to a man named Gaius,
recommending to him a group of Christians led by Demetrius, which
had come to preach the gospel in the area where Gaius lived. The
purpose of the letter is to encourage and strengthen Gaius, and to
warn him against Diotrephes, who refuses to cooperate with the
author of the letter. Early church literature contains no mention
of the epistle, with the first reference to it appearing in the
middle of the third century. This lack of documentation, though
likely due to the extreme brevity of the epistle, caused early
church writers to doubt its authenticity until the early 5th
century, when it was accepted into the canon along with the other
two epistles of John. The language of 3 John echoes that of the
Gospel of John, which is conventionally dated to around AD 90, so
the epistle was likely written near the end of the first century.
Others contest this view, such as the scholar John A. T. Robinson,
who dates 3 John to c. AD 60–65.[1] The location of writing is
unknown, but tradition places it in Ephesus. The epistle is found
in many of the oldest New Testament manuscripts, and its text is
free of major discrepancies or textual variants. Wikipedia