3Jo 13 | CPDV | STEP | I had many things to write to you, but I am not willing, through ink and pen, to write to you.

‏ 3 John 13

13 I had many things to write to you, but I am not willing, through ink and pen, to write to you. ^{▼▼1:13It seems to me that John is not willing to trust everything to writing because there are troublemakers within the Church he is writing to, who might distort what he is saying, or who might not deliver it. Letters in past times were often hand delivered by some trusted person who was traveling to the same place. John seems to lack the ability to send someone who would be widely accepted to that Church.(Conte)}