The word fellowship is an interesting one. Used in classical Greek as a favorite expression for the marriage relationship, the most intimate bond between human beings, it is particularly appropriate to describe the Christian's personal relationship with God and with his fellow believers as her and later in verse 6 and 7. But the word also meant a participation or sharing in a more general sense, for instance a business partnership or a joint tenancy. Perhaps John could look back on the distant days when he and his brother James had been shareholders in the Zebedee Fishing Company.p24 The Message of John's Letters: Living in the Love of God (Bible Speaks Today)
In Luke 5:10 it is used to describe the relationship between fishermen who worked together as business partners.
In Matthew 23:30 Jesus uses it to describe how the Pharisees deny that they would have been fellow-murderers with those who killed the prophets.
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