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John 1:3
All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made.
All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made.
JOHN 1:3-4 ouvde. e[n) o] ge,gonen evn {B} Should the words o] ge,gonen be joined with what goes before or with what follows? The oldest manuscripts (î66, 75* a* A B) have no punctuation here, and in...
Verse John 1:3. _ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM_] That is, by this Logos. In Genesis 1:1, GOD is said to have created all things: in this verse, _Christ_ is said to have created all things: the same une...
ALL THINGS - The universe. The expression cannot be limited to any part of the universe. It appropriately expresses everything which exists - all the vast masses of material worlds, and all the animal...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. The Only-begotten, the Eternal Word; His Glory and His Manifestation -- Chapter 1:1-2:22 CHAPTER 1 __ 1. The Word: the Creator, the Life and the Light. (John 1:1 .)...
THE PROLOGUE: See Introduction. JOHN 1:1. THE WORD IN RELATION TO GOD AND CREATION. The references to the language and thought of _Genesis 1_ are clear. At the time of creation, if the phrase may be...
AND ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM. Having affirmed the divine and uncreated nature of the Word, John next proceeds to tell of his relation to creation. All things, the world and all it contains, and the...
THE WORD (John 1:1-18)...
When the world had its beginning, the Word was already there; and the Word was with God; and the Word was God. This Word was in the beginning with God. He was the agent through whom all things were ma...
ALL THINGS. Referring to the infinite detail of creation. ' WERE MADE. came into being. Not the same word as in John 1:1. BY. through. Greek. _dia._ App-104.John 1:1. As in Romans 11:36;...
John 1:1-18. The Prologue or Introduction That the first eighteen verses are introductory is universally admitted: commentators are not so unanimous as to the main divisions of this introduction. A d...
_by him_ Rather, THROUGH _Him_. The universe was created _by_the Father _through the agency_of the Son. Comp. 1 Corinthians 8:6; Colossians 1:16 (where see Lightfoot's note); Romans 11:36;...
1–18. The Prologue or Introduction in three parts. 1–5: The Word in His own nature. 6–13: His Revelation to men and rejection by them. 14–18: His Revelation of the Father. The three great characterist...
THE WORD IN HIS OWN NATURE ἘΝ�. _In the beginning_. The meaning must depend on the context. In Genesis 1:1 it is an act done ἐν�; here it is a Being existing ἐν�, and therefore prior to all beginning....
ΠΆΝΤΑ. Less definite and more comprehensive than τὰ πάντα, which we find 1 Corinthians 8:6; Colossians 1:16; Romans 11:36; Hebrews 2:10
VER 3A. ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM. ALCUIN; After speaking of the nature of the Son, he proceeds to His operations, saying, All things were made by him, i.e. every thing whether substance, or proper...
_THE ETERNAL "WORD" OF GOD IS JESUS-- JOHN 1:1-18:_ Jesus is pictured as "the Word" who was in the beginning with God. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God....
ΠΆΝΤΑ ΔΙ'ΑΎΤΟΫ́ "все вещи (были) через Него". Эта фраза кажется особенно подходящей для описания роли Логоса как Посредника между Богом и миром (Schlatter), ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑ...
ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM;— Although the word _make_ is capable of an extensive sense, yet, as in other passages Jesus is said to have _created all things,_ Colossians 1:16 we cannot doubt that St....
THE PRE-EXISTENCE OF THE WORD DESCRIBED _Text 1:1-5_ 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things wer...
EXPOSITORY SERMON NO. 1 THE BIRTH OF CHRIST INTERPRETED John 1:1-18 _Introduction_ I. TELL BIRTH STORY BRIEFLY (Luke 2:1-52). A. John's Prologue gives the definition of Christmas. B. Especiall...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 1:1-13 In the last chapter we stated, "Each book of the Bible has a prominent and dominant theme which is peculiar to itself. Just as each member in the human bo...
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM - that is, "all things" in the most absolute sense; as the next clause is intended to...
As God always was, there is no absolute beginning brought before us in the Scriptures. Both here and in Gen.11 the article _ the _ is lacking in the originals, showing that it refers to the commenceme...
THE DIVINITY AND INCARNATION OF THE WORD. WITNESS OF JOHN. THE FIRST DISCIPLES 1-18. Preface, declaring (1) that the Word was God, (2) that He was made man, (3) that He revealed the Father. This subl...
MADE BY HIM] i.e. 'through' Him, as the Father's agent. That Christ is the creator of the universe is stated Colossians 1:16; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Hebrews 1:2;...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ THE AUTHOR Most people agree that John, Jesus’ *disciple, wrote the 4th *Gospel. John’s father was called Zebedee. And John had...
From the person of the Word we are guided to think of His creative work. The first chapter of Genesis is still present to the mind, but a fuller meaning can now be given to its words. All things came...
CHAPTER 1 THE INCARNATION. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was no...
CHAPTER 2 RECEPTION CHRIST MET WITH. John 1:1. In describing the Word of God, John mentions two attributes of His by which His relation to men becomes apparent: “All things were made by Him,” and “t...
Πάντα διʼ αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο. The connection is obvious: the Word was with God in the beginning, but not as an idle, inefficacious existence, who only then for the first time put forth energy when He came...
_The Logos described_. The first five verses describe the pre-existence, the nature, the creative power of the Logos, who in the succeeding verses is spoken of as entering the world, becoming man, and...
THE LIGHT FOR THE NEW YEAR'S PATH John 1:1-13 The titles of our Lord are set forth in royal fashion. As speech reveals the hidden thoughts of men, so does our Lord utter the unseen God. God spake and...
The Gospel of John brings us into the profoundest facts concerning the Person of Jesus. The first eighteen verses constitute the introduction to the whole Book. The main declaration is found by bringi...
(2) All (f) things were made by him; and (g) without him (h) was not any thing made that was made. (2) The Son of God declares that his everlasting Godhead is the same as the Father's, both by the cr...
All things were made by him, [2] and without him was made nothing that was made. These words teach us, that all created being, visible or invisible on earth, every thing that ever was made, or began t...
JOHN'S GOSPEL You observe, thus far, not a word has been said about John's Gospel. Matthew, Mark, and Luke all wrote historically. Consequently, they go much together, most felicitously corroborating...
FIRST SECTION: THE LOGOS. 1:1-14. It would be difficult not to recognize in these first verses an allusion to the beginning of Genesis. The first words of the two writings manifestly correspond with e...
PROLOGUE: 1:1-18. EACH evangelist begins his book in a manner appropriate to the aim of his narrative. Matthew proposes to prove the _right_ of Jesus to the Messianic throne. He opens his story with H...
[See also the "General Considerations on the Prologue" in the comments of John 1:18.] VV. 3. “ _All things were made through Him, and not one of the things which exist was made without Him._ ” The wo...
The same was in the beginning with God, (3) All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. These words throw a further light upon the verse before, and considered in...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
3._All things were made by him_. Having affirmed that the Speech is God, and having asserted his eternal essence, he now proves his Divinity from his works. And this is the practical knowledge, to whi...
The first chapter asserts what He was before all things, and the different characters in which He is a blessing to man, being made flesh. He is, and He is the expression of, the whole mind that subsis...
ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM,.... Which is a proof at once of all that is said before; as that he was in the beginning; and that he was with God the Father in the beginning; and that he was God; otherw...
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. Ver. 3. _All things were made by him_] So he was not idle with the Father (though he were his darling, sporting alwa...
_All things were made by him_ All creatures, whether in heaven or on earth, the whole universe, and every being contained therein, animate or inanimate, intelligent or unintelligent. The Father spoke...
ALL THINGS WERE MADE-NOT ANY THING MADE; all things in the widest sense. Compare Colossians 1:16; HEBREWS 1:2. And as God, he upholds all things which he has made. Hebrews 1:3....
CHRIST THE LIVING WORD (vs.1-5) Revelation 19:13, speaking of the Lord Jesus, says, "His name is called the Word of God." As such He had no beginning: in the beginning He was there. In person He is...
1-5 The plainest reason why the Son of God is called the Word, seems to be, that as our words explain our minds to others, so was the Son of God sent in order to reveal his Father's mind to the world...
OLBGrk; ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM: the Divine nature and eternal existence of the Lord Christ, is evident from his efficiency in the creation of the world: what the evangelist here calleth _all thin...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Tarsians Nor is He a mere man, by whom and in whom all things were made; for "all things were made by Him."[20] Epistle of Ignatius to the Tarsians and the Word was God....
John 1:3 things G3956 made G1096 (G5633) through G1223 Him G846 and G2532 without G5565 Him G846 nothing...
The content of Jonah's prophecy, which is described in the usual terms of ‘the word of YHWH', is depicted as being that YHWH wanted the wickedness of Nineveh to be brought to the attention of its peop...
THE WORD WAS GOD (JOHN 1:1). John commences his Gospel by speaking of ‘the Word' (i.e. the One through Whom God has acted and spoken'), and later he adds, ‘all things were made by Him' (John 1:3) and...
‘All things were made by (or through) Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.' Note the continual twofold repetition. ‘In the beginning was the Word -- the Word was in the beginning...
John 1:3. ALL THINGS CAME INTO BEING THROUGH HIM, AND APART FROM HIM NOT EVEN ONE THING CAME INTO BEING. Such a combination of two clauses, the first positive, the second negative (see note on John 1:...
The Prologue of the Gospel of John stands in the most intimate connection with the plan and purpose of the Gospel as a whole. It is not to be regarded as a philosophical speculation to which the histo...
ALL THINGS (παντα). The philosophical phrase was τα παντα (the all things) as we have it in 1 Corinthians 8:6; Romans 11:36; Colossians 1:16. In verse...
John 1:3 Christ the Creator. I. The Church in her creeds has borne unequivocal testimony to Christ as the Creator. When we say that the Son of God made the worlds, we do not speak as of an act of His...
John is the majestic Evangelist; he is the high-soaring eagle with the piercing eye. His is the Gospel of the Son of God. John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the...
May the Holy Spirit, who inspired these words, inspire us through them as we read them! John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word._ The divine Logos, whom we know as the Christ of God. «In the beginn...
John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word,_ Christ the Word has existed from all eternity. He is the eternal Son of the eternal Father; he is really what Melchisedec was metaphorically, «having neithe...
CONTENTS: Deity of Christ. Ministry of John the Baptist. Jesus announced as the Lamb of God, and the first converts to Him. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, John the Baptist, Moses, Elias, Isaiah, Pharisees,...
John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word._ Εν αρχη ο λογος. John begins the new creation with the words of Moses of the old creation, and continues to speak of Christ in the running language of all th...
BEFORE THE WORLD WAS CREATED. The brief time from the Virgin Birth in Bethlehem to the Ascension from the Mount of Olives must be understood in its relationship to the WHOLE of the Son of God. Read wh...
_In the beginning was the Word_ I. THE APOSTLE ASSERTS THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST. 1. His name: the Word. (1) He is the chief subject of Revelation--the Word of promise--the substance of all shadows,...
_All things were made by Him_ THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF CREATION I. THE PURIFICATION OF THE HEATHEN DOCTRINE: obviating the eternity of matter. II. THE DEEPENING OF THE JEWISH DOCTRINE of the Sheki...
THE WORLD THAT JESUS MADE All things were made by him John 1:3. This looks a very easy text. There are only six words in it and the longest one is only six letters. Even the tiniest person here cou...
JOHN 1:1 Prologue: The Incarnate Word. John presents Jesus as the eternal, preexistent, and now incarnate Word (vv. John 1:1, John 1:14). Jesus is the one-of-
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 1:3 MADE THROUGH HIM. God the Father did his work of creation through the activity of the Son (see Colossians 1:16). This verse disproves any suggestion that t
THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, ACCORDING TO JOHN. T HIS is the title in the Greek and Latin codices. In the Syriac it is as follows, _The Holy Gospel, the Preaching of Jouchanon_ (John), _which...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 1:1. IN THE BEGINNING, etc.—ἐν�. The בְּרֵאשִׁית etc., of Genesis 1 denotes the beginning of that movement of the divine creative energy from which sprang the vis...
EXPOSITION THE title of the book is differently given in the manuscripts and ancient versions, and the differences are so considerable that they cannot be referred to the original text. The simplest f...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to the gospel according to John. The gospel of John was the last of the gospels that were written. It was written towards the close of that first century, written by John,...
Colossians 1:16; Colossians 1:17; Ephesians 3:9; Genesis 1:1; Genesi
All things [π α ν τ α]. Regarded severally. The reference is to the infinite detail of creation, rather than to creation as a whole, which is expressed by ta panta, the all (Colossians 1:16). For this...
SEEING CHRIST IN JOHN John 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is not difficult for us to find the Lord Jesus in the Book of John. We have always been told that John, by the Holy Ghost, sets forth the Deity...
VISIONS OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST John 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Four Gospels present the Lord Jesus Christ under four distinct aspects. The Gospel of John tells us of Christ, in His all-glorious D...
All things beside God were made, and all things which were made, were made by the Word. In John 1:1 is described the state of things before the creation: John 1:3, In the creation: John 1:4, In the ti...
Observe here, The argument which St. John uses to prove Christ to be God; it is taken from the work of creation. He that made all things, is truly and really God; but Christ made all things, and nothi...