2 John

The 2nd letter that John wrote

(The book in the Holy Bible called

About this letter

John wrote this letter about 2,000 years ago. That was about 60 years after Jesus went back to heaven. This letter is now in the Holy Bible.

John was one of Jesus’s 12 special workers. He went everywhere with Jesus, and he knew Jesus well. After Jesus went back to heaven, John lived until he was very old. He looked after lots of churches, so people called him

Some of those churches that John looked after were in other towns, not in the town that John lived in. So he wrote letters to people in those churches. He wanted to tell them to keep following the true message about Jesus. Sometimes there was trouble in those churches, so John wrote letters to tell them what to do.

We still have copies of 3 of John’s letters, and they are now in the Holy Bible. This letter is the 2nd letter that we have.

John wrote this letter to a church. But he wrote this letter like he was writing to one woman. Maybe John wrote this letter at a time when it was dangerous to be a Christian. Maybe John didn’t want to get any Christians in trouble. Maybe that is why he didn’t want to write anyone’s name in his letter or say he was writing to a church. In this Bible we have made it clear that John was writing to a church.

Back then, there were some people that said they were Christians, but they were going around telling lies about Jesus. John wanted to warn Christians about those bad people. So John wrote this letter to help the Christians.