I have written something to the church; but Diot′rephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge my authority.

Ἔγραψά τι τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ· ἀλλ’ ὁ φιλοπρωτεύων αὐτῶν Διοτρέφης οὐκ ἐπιδέχεται ἡμᾶς.

Later Commentaries

George Leo Haydock (1774-1849)

Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary: 3 John

Diotrephes . . . doth not receive us, nor those we recommend, but prattles and talks against me. We know no more of this man, nor of Demetrius, of whom S. John gives so favourable a character. Wi. — It seemeth, saith Ven. Bede, that he was an arch heretic, or proud sect master—upomnhsw. I will rebuke them, and make them known to be wicked. Bede.