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The New Testament Third Epistle of John (often referred to as '''3 John''') is the 64th book of the Bible . It is the second-shortest book in the Christian Bible by number of verses, and the shortest in regard to number of words (according to the KJV ). It is written by a man who identifies himself only as "the '' (verse 7). The purpose of the letter is to encourage and stengthen Caius, and to warm him against the party headed by Diotrephes, who refuses to cooperate with the ''presbyteros'' who is writing. Edgar Goodspeed saw this and 2 John as cover letters for 1 John , as the only likely reason for their preservation. The language of this epistle is remarkably similar to 2 John , and it is the scholarly consensus that the same man wrote both of these letters, although it has been debated whether or not this man also wrote the Gospel Of John , 1 John , or Revelation , and the Authorship Of The Johannine Works is generally agreed by modern scholars to have been by multiple people (all known as ''John'') rather than just one. Even in ancient times it was argued that this '' John The Presbyter '' was different to the John who wrote 1 John, and this was affirmed by an official church ruling at the Council Of Rome , where it was ordered that the author of 1 John should be known as '' John The Evangelist '' while the author of 2&3 John should be known as ''John the Presbyter''. The earliest possible attestations for 3 John come from accepts two letters of John only. EXTERNAL LINKS Online translations of the Third Epistle of John:
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