Rub-a-dub-dub,
Three men in a tub.
So starts the English nursery rhyme.
John tells his readers that he proclaims what he has seen and heard so that they may have fellowship with him and the other apostles and ultimately with the Father and the Son. The Greek word for fellowship is koinonia and it means to "have in common".
The butcher, baker and candlestick maker had the tub in common.
The question we should ask is why did John say that the result he wanted from proclaiming the truth about what they had seen and heard would be fellowship? Why not salvation or holiness or something else? John knew that to have fellowship would mean to be in a right relationship.
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