WHO WROTE:  Peter.

 

 

WHAT TIME PERIOD IS COVERED:  If we go with the traditional date of Peters crucifixion, in 64 A.D., this Epistle would have to have been written before that time.

 

 

WHEN WRITTEN:  The Epistle of Jude was written sometime after 68 or 69 A.D. according to “Fausset’s Bible Dictionary.”  Or somewhere between 63 to 67 A.D., settling on 65 A.D., according to “Smith’s Bible Commentary.”  However, Dr. Philip Schaff [be cautious of anything from Schaff] and “The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia,”they date it as late as 75-80 A.D.  Whereas, “The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia” has the First Epistle of Peter as being written in 64 A.D., along with the Second.

 

 

INTRODUCTION:  According to First Peter 1:1, Peters Epistle is written to “strangers scattered.”  A more literal translation would be, “sojourners of the Dispersion.”  In other words, those of Jewish descent who have been “dispersed” throughout the world.

 

According to First Peter 5:13, it is most apparent that this Epistle was written from that famous city of Babylon, doubtless the famous Babylon on the Euphrates, which, though destroyed as a great capital, was still inhabited by a small colony of people, principally Jews (see “Weiss, Introduction,” II, 150).  The Letter was sent to the Churches, the author affirming that his object in writing was to exhort and testify concerning “the true grace of God,” First Peter 5:12.

 

According to Peters own statement in Second Peter 1:12: “Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things,” this makes most Bible Commentators agreeing that Peter’s Second Epistle would not have taken more than a year to write from the First Letter.  Therefore, what we have established here is that the Book of Jude was definitely written after Peter’s Second Epistle.  I mention this because the Book of Jude, is basically Second Peter, Chapter 2, revisited.