3 John

The 3rd 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 3rd letter that we have.

John wrote this letter to a man called Guyus. Guyus was John’s friend, and John heard that Guyus was helping Christians that went around and told people about Jesus. You see, at that time, churches sent people to go around to different towns and tell people the good news about Jesus. They had to go a long way, so they needed food and somewhere to stay. Some of those Christians went to Guyus’s town, and he helped them.

This letter also tells us about a man that was called Diotrefees. He didn’t want to help those Christians that were telling people about Jesus, and he didn’t want any other Christians to help them.

And John also wrote about a man that was called Demetrius. He was a good man. He was probably one of those Christians that went to different towns and told people about Jesus. He probably went to Guyus’s town, and maybe he was the person that took this letter to Guyus.