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A large unoccupied chair dominates ordinary stools beside a set-aside letter.
Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible.

3 John 1:9

Diotrephes Loves to Be First

Hospitality and Faithful Testimony · 3 John 1

Story guide: Visual essay: a dominating chair and set-aside letter evoke Diotrephes’s love of first place and refusal to receive the elder.

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9I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not receive us.

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