A Handbook on the Third Letter of John (Biblia.com)

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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

writing thus referred to is not identical with what is called the second Letter of John. For the verb compare comments on 1 John 1:4. The church presumably refers here to the congregation Gaius belongs to. Accordingly some versions specify, ‘your church/congregation,’ ‘the people of Christ who are with you (or at your place).’ The letter referred to will not, the elder fears, work out anything. The reason for this is stated in the next clause: Diotrephes … does not acknowledge my authority (lit.

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