Third Epistle of John

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The Third Epistle of John is the 64th book of the Bible. It is located in the New Testament and is the second-shortest book in the entire Christian Bible.

It is addressed to Caius (or Gaius) but whether to the Christian of that name in Macedonia (Acts 19:29) or in Corinth (Romans 16:23) or in Derbe (Acts 20:4) is uncertain. It was written for the purpose of commending to Gaius a party of Christians led by Demetrius, who were strangers in the place where he lived, and who had gone on a mission to preach the gospel (verse 7).

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 he also wrote the Gospel of John, 1 John, or Revelation.