3 others in the registry answer to the name Gaius. Every Gaius in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- 3 John 1:1
- last named
- 3 John 1:14
- period
- the New Testament
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Gaius?
Gaius is the recipient of John's third epistle, a short letter in which the apostle commends him for his faithfulness and hospitality. John addresses Gaius as a dear friend whom he loves in the truth (3Jn.1.1). He expresses his joy upon hearing that Gaius is walking in the truth and supporting the work of the gospel (3Jn.1.3-4). John specifically praises Gaius for his hospitality towards traveling missionaries, even though they were strangers to him (3Jn.1.5-8). This hospitality was essential for the spread of the gospel, as these missionaries relied on the support of believers like Gaius. John also mentions a certain Diotrephes who was causing problems in the church and refusing to welcome the missionaries (3Jn.1.9-10). In contrast, John encourages Gaius to continue doing what is good and not to imitate what is evil (3Jn.1.11). The letter to Gaius provides insight into the challenges and importance of hospitality and support within the early Christian community.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Gaius is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in 3 John (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources