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The Letters of John: An Introduction and Commentary 3. The Message concerning Demetrius (11–12)

Just as the thought of Diotrephes led John to write about doing evil, the mention of doing good seems now to remind him of Demetrius. A certain Demetrius is mentioned in Acts 19:23ff., a silversmith of Ephesus; but there is no evidence that it is he who is here described