New Testament / 2 Peter / 3
- 2 Peter 3:3 / Sanhedrin 97b
- 2 Peter 3:7 / Life of Adam and Eve 49.3
- 2 Peter 3:8 / Psalm 90:4
- 2 Peter 3:9 / Sirach 18:11
- 2 Peter 3:9 / Jonathan Isaiah 26:10
- 2 Peter 3:9 / Wisdom of Solomon 12:20
- 2 Peter 3:9 / 4 Ezra 8:59
- 2 Peter 3:9 / Ezekiel 33:11
- 2 Peter 3:10 / Isaiah 34:4
- 2 Peter 3:10 / Psalm 102:26
- 2 Peter 3:11 / Sirach 36:4
- 2 Peter 3:12 / Sanhedrin 98a
- 2 Peter 3:12 / Acts 17:31
- 2 Peter 3:13 / Isaiah 65:17
Summary
Date: 120-130 C.E.
The second letter of Peter is written to a general audience of believers in the eastern Mediterranean area. The letter contains condemnation of false teachers, exhortations to progress in virtue, and discusses the delay of the second coming of Jesus. The letter is notable for its apparent dependency on the letter of Jude as it shares much of its content. Scholarship is nearly unanimous that this is an anonymous letter, not written by Peter, and that it is chronologically the last written book of the New Testament.