3rd John Chapter 1 verse 9 Holy Bible
I wrote somewhat unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.
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I sent a letter to the church, but Diotrephes, whose desire is ever to have the first place among them, will not have us there.
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I wrote something to the assembly; but Diotrephes, who loves to have the first place among them, receives us not.
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I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.
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I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn't accept what we say.
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I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them -- Diotrephes -- doth not receive us;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVer. 9. - I wrote somewhat to the Church (reading, with the best authorities, ἔγραψά τι probably means that St. John had written a letter, now lost, and perhaps destroyed by Diotrephes, to the Church to which Diotrephes belonged. That Diotrephes was bishop of this Church is conjecture; as also that he opposed St. John's emissaries "because they were bent on carrying the gospel to the Gentiles, he himself being, no doubt, both a Jew and of the Jewish faction." He may have been an influential layman. But the context favours the view that he was at least a presbyter. This ecclesiastical Cleon is the type of all vain, noisy, self-asserting teachers, whose main object is to get their own way - an object which they effect by browbeating all who differ from them. No authority is respected and no character spared which seems to oppose their policy. Even an apostle is denounced if he ventures to maintain that the truth may be larger than their view of it. Christian ministers now must not be surprised if they sometimes meet with no better treatment.
