3Jo 9 | CPDV | STEP | As it happens, I had written to the church. But Diotrephes, who loves to bear the highest rank among them, would not accept us.

3 John 9

9 As it happens, I had written to the church. But Diotrephes, who loves to bear the highest rank among them, would not accept us. ^{▼▼1:9John addresses this letter to an individual, Gaius, because a troublemaker in the Church was making it ineffective for him to write directly to the Church in that city.(Conte)
,} ^{▼▼1:9 Diotrephes who loves: This man seems to be in power, but not a friend to the faithful; therefore this part of the letter might be an admonition to him from the apostle.(Challoner)}