Before I left San Diego, I went through all the Johannine epistles (1, 2, 3 John). Here are the questions we devised:<\/p>\n
72. Who wrote this letter?<\/strong> 73.\u00a0When was this letter written?<\/strong> 74.\u00a0To whom was it written?<\/strong> 75.\u00a0Why was this letter written?<\/strong> 76.\u00a0What are some of the words which John uses a lot in his writings?<\/strong> 77. To whom is this letter addressed?<\/strong> 78. What is the main content of this letter?<\/strong> 79. Who is the antichrist?<\/strong> 80. To whom is this letter addressed?<\/strong> 81. What is the main content of the letter?<\/strong> 1-16<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a017-27<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a027-42<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a043-52<\/a> | 53-57<\/a> | 58-67<\/a> | 68-71<\/a> | 72-81<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before I left San Diego, I went through all the Johannine epistles (1, 2, 3 John). Here are the questions we devised: 1 John 72. Who wrote this letter? The Early Church identified it as John the Apostle, son of Zebedee. This would explain the preservation of the letter as well as the numerous parallels with John’s Gospel and the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3170,3171,3172,58,2969,1387,136],"class_list":["post-57493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith","tag-1-john","tag-2-john","tag-3-john","tag-epistle","tag-featured","tag-john","tag-scripture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/John.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57493"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57742,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57493\/revisions\/57742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Early Church identified it as John the Apostle, son of Zebedee. This would explain the preservation of the letter as well as the numerous parallels with John’s Gospel and the Book of Revelation. In recent\u00a0years some have suggested that it is a disciple known as “John the elder”, a character from the Early Church about whom we know relatively little.<\/p>\n
\nIt was probably written after the publication of John’s Gospel, sometime in the 90s.<\/p>\n
\nProbably to the Christians around Ephesus where John is said to have settled.<\/p>\n
\nPrimarily to respond to a heretical, schismatic group. These could have possibly been Docetists, Gnostics, Cerinthians or possibly even converts from Judaism. The issue seemed to surround the nature and identity of Christ. John spends most of the letter talking about the authentic fellowship with God.<\/p>\n
\nLife, death, light, dark, beginning, abide, …<\/p>\n2 John<\/h3>\n
\nIt is addressed to “the elect lady and her children”<\/span>. Although this could have possibly been an actual person, it is more likely that John is speaking of a neighbouring Church is sisterly, feminine terms.<\/p>\n
\nJohn is writing to a sister church. He encourages them and warns them of the antichrist<\/p>\n
\nAccording to John, anyone who “will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh”<\/span>.<\/p>\n3 John<\/h3>\n
\nIt is addressed to “the beloved Gaius”.<\/span>\u00a0He is most likely in the leadership of the one of the local congregations.<\/p>\n
\nA man named “Diotrephes”<\/span> is exalting himself, refusing to accept John’s authority, refusing welcome to those John sends and excommunicating anyone who does so.<\/p>\n