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John 1:8
He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
FOR A WITNESS - To give testimony. He came to prepare the minds of the people to receive him Matthew 3; Luke 3; to lead them by repentance to God; and to point out the Messiah to Israel when he came,...
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 PREPARATION FOR THE FINAL MANIFESTATION. The way was prepared for the final revelation by the work of John. The author takes the opportunity of asserting John's true position as against the extrav...
HE WAS NOT THAT LIGHT, BUT WAS SENT TO BEAR WITNESS. An early heretical sect held that John the Baptist was the Messiah. The apostle is explicit in order to correct this error. It is said by the Savio...
There emerged a man sent from God whose name was John. He came as a witness, in order to bear witness to the light, that through him all might believe. He himself was not the light; his function was t...
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...
HE. That one. Compare John 2:21. THAT LIGHT. the Light. Compare John 9:5; John 12:35. WAS SENT. Supply "came" from John 1:7....
_not that Light_ Better, _not_ THE _Light_. The Baptist was not the Light, but -the lamp that is lighted and shineth" (see on John 5:35). He was _lumen illuminatum_, not _lumen illuminans_. At the clo...
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...
THE WORD REVEALED TO MEN AND REJECTED BY THEM...
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...
ἘΚΕΙ͂ΝΟΣ. A favourite pronoun with S. John, often used merely to emphasize the main subject instead of denoting some one more remote, which is its ordinary use. ‘It was not _he_ who was the Light, but...
VER 6. THERE WAS A MAN SENT FROM GOD, WHOSE NAME WAS JOHN. 7. THE SAME CAME FOR A WITNESS, TO BEAR WITNESS OF THE LIGHT, THAT ALL MEN THROUGH HIM MIGHT BELIEVE. 8. HE WAS NOT THAT LIGHT, BUT WAS SENT...
_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....
ΉΝ _impf. ind. act., см._ John 1:1. ΕΚΕΊΝΟΣ (G1565) этот, относится к Иоанну в отличие от Христа, ΜΑΡΤΥΡΉΣΗ _aor. conj. act., см._ John 1:7. ΠΕΡΊ ΤΟΫ ΦΩΤΌΣ относительно света. Иоанн был светильнико...
THE WORD MANIFESTED TO THE JEWSTHEIR REJECTION OF HIM _Text 1:6-11_ 6 There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. 7 The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, t...
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...
He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. HE WAS NOT THAT LIGHT [RATHER, 'THE LIGHT' to (G3588 ) Foos (G5457 )], BUT [WAS SENT] TO BEAR WITNESS OF THAT (OR 'THE') LIGHT. No...
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...
PARENTHESIS: THE MISSION OF CHRIST'S FORERUNNER, JOHN THE BAPTIST. Perhaps this section is directed against those followers of the Baptist who maintained that he was the Messiah. The evangelist makes...
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...
HE WAS NOT THAT LIGHT, BUT WAS SENT. — It is necessary to repeat the statement of John’s position and work in an emphatic form. Now first for 400 years a great teacher had appeared in Israel. The even...
John 1:15 CHAPTER 3 THE BAPTIST'S TESTIMONY. “There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, that all might believe throug...
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...
_The historic manifestation of the Logos and its results_....
οὐκ ἦν ἐκεῖνος … φωτός, the thought of the previous verse is here put in a negative form for the sake of emphasis; and with the same object οὐκ ἦν is made prominent that it may contrast with the ἵνα μ...
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...
He was not (o) that Light, but [was sent] to bear witness of that Light. (o) That light which we spoke of, that is, Christ, who alone can enlighten our darkness....
_He; that is John the Baptist, was not the true light: but the word was the true light. In the translation, it is necessary to express that the word was the true light, lest any one should think that...
TESTIMONY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST John 1:6-51. _“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, that he may testify concerning the Light, in order that all may believe th...
SECOND SECTION: UNBELIEF. 1:5-11. This Logos, light of the world, appears in the world buried in the darkness of sin; He is not recognized and is rejected (John 1:5). And yet God had taken all precaut...
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.] VER. 8. “ _He was not the light; but [he came] to bear witness to the light._ ” The emphasis is not, as _Meyer_ a...
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John: (7) The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. (8) He was not that Light, but was sent to be...
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...
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...
HE WAS NOT THAT LIGHT,.... He was a light; he was the forerunner of the sun of righteousness, the "phosphorus" of the Gospel day; he had great light in him; he knew that the Messiah was ready to come,...
He was not that Light, but _was sent_ to bear witness of that Light. Ver. 8. _He was not that light_] As some sinisterly conceited, which therefore occasioned that most necessary digression, John 1:6...
_There was a man sent from God_ The introducer of a new dispensation, the morning star, preceding the rise of the Sun of righteousness; _whose name was_ JOHN That is, _grace;_ a name fitly given to th...
HE WAS NOT THAT LIGHT; John was "a burning and a shining light," chap John 5:35; but he received all his brightness from the eternal Word, who alone is the true Light, because he has light in himself,...
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...
6-14 John the Baptist came to bear witness concerning Jesus. Nothing more fully shows the darkness of men's minds, than that when the Light had appeared, there needed a witness to call attention to i...
HE WAS NOT THAT LIGHT: John the Baptist was a light, as all saints are _light in the Lord,_ EPHESIANS 5:8; nay, in a peculiar sense our Saviour beareth him witness, that he _was a burning and shining...
Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics and title of brotherhood, and bond[210] Tertullian On Modesty If we confess our sins, faithful and just is He to remit them to us, and utterly purify us...
John 1:8 was G2258 (G5713) not G3756 that G1565 Light G5457 but G235 to G2443 witness G3140 ...
‘He was not the light, but came that he might bear witness of the light, which was the true light, which lights every man coming into the world.' The stress now is on the fact that John was not the li...
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...
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...
John 1:8. HE WAS NOT THE LIGHT, BUT HE WAS THAT HE MIGHT BEAR WITNESS CONCERNING THE LIGHT. The thought of the greatness of the witness borne by John underlies the words of this verse. Great as the Ba...
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...
HE (εκεινος). "That one," i.e. John. He was a light (John 5:35) as all believers are (Matthew 5:14), but not "the light" (το φως).BUT CAME (αλλ'). No verb in the Greek, to be supplied by repeating...
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...
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 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...
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...
HE HIMSELF WAS NOT THE LIGHT. John was not "The Man," but only the "advance man." [Some were teaching that John the Baptist was the Messiah.] John the apostle, makes it very plain!...
_He was not that Light_ THE PERSONALITY OF THE BAPTIST I. John the Baptist was WELL BORN. The best Jewish blood flowed in his veins. Hereditary forces are the conservative forces of society. Voice, s...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 1:6 WITNESS. John speaks of the first of several witnesses who bear testimony concerning Jesus (see John 5:31; and chart).
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-
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,...
Acts 19:4; John 1:20; John 3:28...
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...