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3 John
"I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth."
— 3 John 4 
The Reading LensEvery verse pulled to the top of a book is chosen by three questions: Where is God’s heart here? Who is He protecting? Who is being saved by the action? It marks the place where those answers come into clearest focus — a “look at this, in this book.”
About the Letter
Fifteen verses, from “the elder” to a named individual, Gaius — the most personal document in the New Testament, and the only one entirely occupied with a dispute between named people.
The subject is hospitality again, but from the other side. Gaius has received travelling teachers well. Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, refuses to receive them, talks maliciously about the elder, and puts out of the church anyone who tries.
It is a small window onto something usually invisible — an ordinary administrative quarrel in a first-century congregation, preserved only because of who happened to be writing about it.