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3 John

3 John (New Testament • 1 Chapters): 3 John (New Testament, 1 chapters). Opens with: "The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth...." Within the broader Biblical Knowledge Graph, this connects directly to Biblical Textual Criticism: Papyri, Uncials & Manuscript Families—Historical and scientific consensus that over 5,800 Greek NT manuscripts, ancient versions (Syriac Peshitta, Old Latin, Coptic, Vulgate), and early patristic quotations preserve the pristine original text of the NT with >99% substantial fidelity. Minor variant debates (e.g. Pericope Adulterae John 7:53–8 :11, Longer Ending of Mark 16:9-20 , Comma Johanneum 1 John 5:7-8 ) are evaluated via transparent canons of textual criticism.

Biblical Geography & Sacred Architecture

Key geographical locations connected to this topic include Bethsaida (Ancient biblical location referenced in Matt 11:21 , Mark 6:45 , Mark 8:22 , Luke 9:10 , Luke 10:13 , John 1:44 .) Arimathea (?. Referenced in Matt 27:57 , Mark 15:43 , Luke 23:50 , John 19:38 .) Capernaum (Ancient biblical location referenced in Matt 4:13 , Matt 8:5 , Matt 11:23 , Matt 17:24 , Mark 1:21 , Mark 2:1 .) Sea of Galilee (water. Referenced in Matt 4:18 , Matt 15:29 , Mark 1:16 , Mark 7:31 , John 6:1 .)

Scripture Witness (KJV) & Canonical Context

Primary KJV scripture witnesses include John 11:35 : " Jesus wept."; John 3:24 : "For John was not yet cast into prison."; John 1:6 : "There was a man sent from God, whose name was John .". Related canonical books and chapters: 3 John (New Testament • 1 Chapters), 3 John 1 ( 3 John • Chapter 1 (14 verses)), 1 John 3 ( 1 John • Chapter 3 (24 verses)).

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Topics, People & Places (36)

3 John
99% New Testament
New Testament • 1 Chapters

3 John (New Testament, 1 chapters). Opens with: "The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth...."

3 John 1
99% Chapter
3 John • Chapter 1 (14 verses)

The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth. Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest...

Papyrus 52 (P52, Rylands Greek 457) Recto — John 18:31–33
IMAGE • manuscripts

The earliest surviving manuscript witness to the New Testament, preserving John 18:31-33 depicting the trial of Jesus before Pontius Pilate.

Second-Century Egyptian Christian Scribe • John Rylands Library, Manchester / Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0
Papyrus 52 (P52, Rylands Greek 457) Verso — John 18:37–38
IMAGE • manuscripts

Verso of P52 containing Christ 's famous declaration: 'Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice' and Pilate's question 'What is truth?'.

Second-Century Egyptian Christian Scribe • John Rylands Library, Manchester / Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0
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PDF • facsimiles

Scholarly photographic study of the oldest known New Testament fragment with transcription and palaeographic commentary.

C. H. Roberts (1935) • John Rylands Library / Internet Archive Public Domain Mark 1.0
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AUDIO • scripture

Spoken audio recording of the canonical verse of Gospel of John 3:16 proclaiming divine love and eternal life in Christ .

Aldi / Wikimedia Commons contributor • Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0
1 John 3
99% Chapter
1 John • Chapter 3 (24 verses)

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall a... Mentions: Cain , Yeshua the Messiah .

John 3
99% Chapter
John • Chapter 3 (36 verses)

There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah, Jacob/Israel , Moses , Aenon , Salim , Jordan .

John 13
99% Chapter
John • Chapter 13 (38 verses)

Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas ... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , Judas , Simon .

John 18:31
99% Verse
John Chapter 18, Verse 31

Scripture passage in John 18:31

John 18:32
99% Verse
John Chapter 18, Verse 32

Scripture passage in John 18:32

John 18:33
99% Verse
John Chapter 18, Verse 33

Scripture passage in John 18:33

John 18:37
99% Verse
John Chapter 18, Verse 37

Scripture passage in John 18:37

John 18:38
98% Verse
John Chapter 18, Verse 38

Scripture passage in John 18:38

John 3:16
98% Verse
John Chapter 3, Verse 16

Scripture passage in John 3:16

Papyrus 66 (Bodmer II) — Gospel of John 1:1–14
IMAGE • manuscripts

Magnificent early 3rd-century papyrus witness to the Johannine Prologue and the Incarnation.

Qumran Essene Scribes / Early Christian Copyists • Shrine of the Book / Israel Antiquities Authority Public Domain Mark 1.0
Caravaggio — The Entombment of Christ (1603)
IMAGE • artwork

Nicodemus, John , and the women gently lowering the lifeless body of Jesus onto the stone of unction.

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) • Galleria Borghese / Roman Churches Public Domain Mark 1.0
Acts 3
83% Chapter
Acts • Chapter 3 (26 verses)

Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; ... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , Jacob/Israel , Abram/Abraham , Isaac , Moses , Nazareth , Solomon's .

Matthew 3
83% Chapter
Matthew • Chapter 3 (17 verses)

In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, mak... Mentions: Abram/Abraham , Yeshua the Messiah , Jerusalem , Jordan , Galilee .

λόγος
logos (lógos) [log'-os]
G3056 Greek noun masculine 330x
a word, a saying, statement

Primary meaning: a word, a saying, statement, declaration. Strong's: something said (including the thought); by implication, a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (i.e. Christ). Lexical nuances: Of that by which the inward thought is expressed, Lat. oratio , sermo , vox , verbum . a word , not in the grammatical sense of a mere name ( ἔπος , ὄνομα , ῥῆμα ), but a word as embodying a conception or idea: Mt 8:8 , Lk 7:7 , I Co 14:9 , 19 , He 12:19 , al. a saying , statement , declaration : Mt 19:22 (T om.), Mk 5:36 7:29 , Lk 1:29 , Jo 2:22 6:60 , Ac 7:29 , al.; c. gen. attrib., Ac 13:15 ...

Derivation: from G3004 (λέγω);
John
78% New Testament
New Testament • 21 Chapters

John (New Testament, 21 chapters). Key figures: Moses , Yeshua the Messiah , Jacob/Israel , Simon , Joseph , Judas . Key places: Jerusalem , Jordan , Galilee , Bethsaida , Nazareth , Cana . Opens with: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...."

Papyrus 66 (Bodmer II) — John 11: The Raising of Lazarus
IMAGE • manuscripts

Papyrus leaf preserving Christ 's declaration: 'I am the resurrection and the life'.

Qumran Essene Scribes / Early Christian Copyists • Shrine of the Book / Israel Antiquities Authority Public Domain Mark 1.0
Papyrus 75 (Bodmer XIV-XV) — End of Luke & Beginning of John
IMAGE • manuscripts

Unbroken transition showing Gospel canonical sequence in early Christian book production.

Early Christian Scribes (Bodmer Papyri) • Vatican Apostolic Library / Bodmer Library Public Domain Mark 1.0
Pool of Bethesda — Twin Pools and Healing Porticoes (John 5)
IMAGE • archaeology

Deep excavated trapezoidal reservoir near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem with five porticoes where Jesus healed the paralytic.

Hasmonean and Roman Hydraulic Engineers • White Fathers / St. Anne, Jerusalem CC-BY-SA 4.0
Bethsaida
78% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 32.908°N, 35.627°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Matt 11:21 , Mark 6:45 , Mark 8:22 , Luke 9:10 , Luke 10:13 , John 1:44 .

Arimathea
77% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Mizpah 3 • 31.833°N, 35.180°E

?. Referenced in Matt 27:57 , Mark 15:43 , Luke 23:50 , John 19:38 .

Capernaum
76% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 32.881°N, 35.575°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Matt 4:13 , Matt 8:5 , Matt 11:23 , Matt 17:24 , Mark 1:21 , Mark 2:1 .

Sea of Galilee
76% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 32.807°N, 35.589°E

water. Referenced in Matt 4:18 , Matt 15:29 , Mark 1:16 , Mark 7:31 , John 6:1 .

Sheep Gate
75% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Neh 3:1 , Neh 3:32 , Neh 12:39 , John 5:2 (identified with Jerusalem ).

Acts 13
74% Chapter
Acts • Chapter 13 (52 verses)

Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene , and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul . As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost... Mentions: Simeon , Saul , Jacob/Israel , Canaan , Samuel , Antioch 1 , Cyrene , Seleucia , Cyprus , Salamis .

Golgotha
74% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Matt 27:33 , Mark 15:22 , John 19:17 (identified with Jerusalem ).

Luke 3
74% Chapter
Luke • Chapter 3 (38 verses)

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee , and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis , and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene , Annas and Caiaphas being the... Mentions: Abram/Abraham , Yeshua the Messiah , Joseph , Matthat , Levi , Galilee , Ituraea , Trachonitis , Abilene , Jordan .

Siloam
74% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Luke 13:4 , John 9:7 , John 9:11 (identified with Jerusalem ).

Mark 13
73% Chapter
Mark • Chapter 13 (37 verses)

And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here! And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , James ( Jacob ), Daniel .

Kidron Valley
73% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Kidron • 31.772°N, 35.237°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in 2 Chr 30:14 , John 18:1 (identified with Kidron ).

Methods, Canons of Criticism, Text-Types, and the Reconstruction of the Original Autographs

Historical and scientific consensus that over 5,800 Greek NT manuscripts, ancient versions (Syriac Peshitta, Old Latin, Coptic, Vulgate), and early patristic quotations preserve the pristine original text of the NT with >99% substantial fidelity. Minor variant debates (e.g. Pericope Adulterae John 7:53–8 :11, Longer Ending of Mark 16:9-20 , Comma Johanneum 1 John 5:7-8 ) are evaluated via transparent canons of textual criticism.

Scripture Passages (24)

For John was not yet cast into prison.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John .

Ye sent unto John , and he bare witness unto the truth.

I receive not honour from men.

I am that bread of life.

I and my Father are one.

And many believed on him there.

These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan , where John was baptizing.

Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;

He must increase, but I must decrease.

And he must needs go through Samaria .

Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe?

Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

The same was in the beginning with God.

(Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)

He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee .

For neither did his brethren believe in him.

And every man went unto his own house.

He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

Of sin, because they believe not on me;

Then Pilate therefore took Jesus , and scourged him.

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