This Week and next: the Second and Third Epistles of John. The Second and third Letters of John are the shortest books in the New Testament, and […] Skip to content. All Sections.

Traditionally regarded as the author of the Fourth Gospel, of three epistles (1 John is the First Reading for most days in Christmastide) and the Book of Revelation, he is generally deemed the ...

―John 19:26–27. John, both an apostle and an evangelist, ... It is probable that either John himself or a disciple of his wrote the three Epistles of John.

John and James were brothers, sons of a prosperous fisherman, Zebedee, probably from Bethsaida by the Sea of Galilee. They were young and headstrong. “The sons of thunder” was their nickname. They ...