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3 John

The elder writes to Gaius — fourteen verses on hospitality, welcome, and the problem of Diotrephes who ‘loveth to have the preeminence.’

  • 1Chapter
  • 14Verses
  • GaiusNamed recipient

“I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.”

3 John 1:4
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Structure

  1. 1The elder to GaiusGreetings to the well-beloved Gaius; commendation of his walk; Diotrephes rebuked; Demetrius commended; face-to-face visit hoped.

Section pages

Each section is one focused part of 3 John — purpose, key movements, key verses, Christ-in-this-section. Roughly five minutes each.

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    Commendation and warning

Themes

Christian hospitality: Brothers going out for the sake of the name depend on church-by-church welcome. Gaius receives them; Diotrephes casts them out.

‘Loveth the preeminence’: (v. 9) — the briefest, bleakest NT portrait of church-political self-promotion.

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Where 3 John leads

152 cross-references flow out of its 1 heaviest chapters · 6 words are distinctively its own.

Counted live from the reference floor (heaviest chapter pairs · tagged word floor · featured-page citations).

Heaviest chapter

3 John 1Sends 152 cross-references outward — the most connected chapter in the book.

Distinctive word

G2256 of its 109 occurrences in all of Scripture fall in this book (6%).

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