Someone who calls himself the elder, traditionally John.
When
About AD 90.
What it is
Thirteen verses to a church, warning it not to house travelling teachers who deny that Christ came in the flesh.
What to watch for
One of the shortest books in the Bible — a single sheet of papyrus, and it says so.
And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.2 John 1:6