{"id":1561,"date":"2025-03-28T19:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T08:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebible.au\/?post_type=third_book_of_john&#038;p=1561"},"modified":"2025-07-26T09:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T22:07:55","slug":"1","status":"publish","type":"third_book_of_john","link":"https:\/\/thebible.au\/?third_book_of_john=1","title":{"rendered":"1 \u25ba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"3 John - Living as Jesus lived\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VXCr4ixthos?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">3 John<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3 John<\/strong>, is a very short personal letter from John the Apostle &#8211; to Gaius. 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