Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 1:13
Who were born — Who became the sons of God, not of blood — Not by descent from Abraham, nor by the will of the flesh — By natural generation, nor by the will of man — Adopting them, but of God — By his Spirit.
Who were born — Who became the sons of God, not of blood — Not by descent from Abraham, nor by the will of the flesh — By natural generation, nor by the will of man — Adopting them, but of God — By his Spirit.
JOHN 1:13 oi] ouvk … evgennh,qhsan {A} Several ancient witnesses, chiefly Latin (itb Irenaeuslat Tertullian Origenlat Ambrose Augustine Ps-Athanasius), read the singular number, “[He] who was born, n...
Verse John 1:13. _WHICH WERE BORN, NOT OF BLOOD_] Who were regenerated, ουκ εξ αιματων, _not of bloods_-the union of father and mother, or of a distinguished or illustrious ancestry; for the Hebrew l...
WHICH WERE BORN - This doubtless refers to the “new birth,” or to the great change in the sinner’s mind called regeneration or conversion. It means that they did not become the children of God in virt...
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 WORK OF THE LIGHT BEFORE THE INCARNATION. But in truth the light, which lighteth every man, was always coming into the world. Possibly John 1:9 means that when John was witnessing, the true light...
WHO WERE BORN, NOT OF BLOOD, NOR BY THE WILL OF THE FLESH. The Jews prided themselves on being Abraham's children, and trusted in their blood for salvation. John declares that blood, or race, has noth...
To all those who did receive him, to those who believe in his name, he gave the right to become the children of God. These were born not of blood, nor of any human impulse, nor of any man's will, but...
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...
WHICH. Who: i.e. those who believe on His name. But antecedent to any ancient MSS., Irenaeus (A.D. 178), Tertullian (A. n. 208), Augustine (A.D. 395), and other Fathers, read "Who was begotten" (Singu...
S. John denies thrice most emphatically that human generation has anything to do with Divine regeneration. Man cannot become a child of God in right of human parentage: descent from Abraham confers no...
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...
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 REVEALED TO MEN AND REJECTED BY THEM...
13. S. John denies thrice most emphatically that human generation has anything to do with Divine regeneration. Man cannot become a child of God in right of human parentage: the new Creation is far mor...
VER 11. HE CAME TO HIS OWN, AND HIS OWN RECEIVED HIM NOT. 12. BUT AS MANY AS RECEIVED HIM, TO THEM GAVE HE POWER TO BECOME THE SONS OF GOD, EVEN TO THEM THAT BELIEVE ON HIS NAME: 13. WHICH WERE BORN,...
_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....
ΑΙΜΆΤΩΝ _gen. pl. от_ ΑΙΜΑ (G129) кровь. Возможно, кровь отца и матери, но лучше рассматривать _pl._ в семитском плане, в _знач._ кровопролития, насилия (DCH, 2:443-44; GELTS, 11) может иметься в виду...
DISCOURSE: 1597 CHRISTIANS BORN OF GOD John 1:13. _Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God_. IT is obvious, that there is at this day, even as...
WHICH WERE BORN, NOT OF BLOOD,— They who thus believed on him, became possessed of this privilege; not in consequence of their being _born of blood,_ or of their being descended from the loinsof the h...
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...
THE WORD MANIFESTED TO OTHERS AND THEIR ACCEPTANCE OF HIM _Text 1:12-18_ 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name:...
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...
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. WHICH WERE BORN, [ egenneetheesan (G1080)]. Observe this word "born," or begotten.' It was not a nam...
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...
This sonship conferred on men depended not on human descent from Abraham (BLOOD), nor upon the sexual relations of their parents (THE WILL OF THE FLESH), nor could it be had for willing or wishing it,...
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...
WHICH WERE BORN. — The result of receiving Him remains to be explained. How could they become “sons of God?” The word which has been used (John 1:12) excludes the idea of adoption, and asserts the nat...
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...
οἳ οὐκ ἐξ αἱμάτων … ἐγεννήθησαν. This first mention of τέκνα θεοῦ suggests the need of further defining how these children of God are produced. The ἐκ denotes the source of the relationship. First he...
_The historic manifestation of the Logos and its results_....
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...
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the (t) will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. (t) Of that shameful and corrupt nature of man, which is throughout the scriptures described as an...
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...
[See also the "General Considerations on the Prologue" in the comments of John 1:18.] VER. 13. “ _Who were born_, _not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God._ ” I...
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...
THIRD SECTION: FAITH, 1:12-18. [See also the "General Considerations on the Prologue" in the comments of John 1:18.] The appearance of the Word, therefore, did not succeed in scattering the darkness...
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...
He was in the world, and the world was made by him; and the world knew him not. (11) He came unto his own, and his own received him not. (12) But as many as received him, to them gave he power to beco...
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...
WHICH WERE BORN NOT OF BLOOD,.... Or bloods, in the plural number. The birth, here spoken of, is regeneration, expressed by a being born again, or from above; by a being quickened by the Spirit and gr...
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. Ver. 13. _But of God_] Whose sons therefore they are, and so "higher than the kings of the earth," Psa...
_But as many as received him_ As the true Messiah, and according to the various offices and characters which he sustains: learning of him, as a teacher, the infinitely important lessons of his grace;...
WERE BORN-OF GOD; changed, by his Holy Spirit, from supreme love of self and sin to supreme love of God and holiness. No man inherits this holy character by nature, nor can it be given to him by man....
The relation of Jesus to the world:...
WHICH WERE BORN, NOT OF BLOOD, NOR OF THE WILL OF THE FLESH, NOR OF THE WILL OF MAN, BUT OF GOD....
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...
WHICH WERE BORN, NOT OF BLOOD; not of the blood of men and women; or, not of the blood of Abraham (which was the boast of the Jews, _We have Abraham to our Father_). NOR OF THE WILL OF THE FLESH; nor...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians If any one says there is one God, and also confesses Christ Jesus, but thinks the Lord to be a mere man, and not the only-begotten[51] Irenaeus Against Here...
John 1:13 who G3739 born G1080 (G5681) not G3756 of G1537 blood G129 nor G3761 of G1537 will...
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...
‘Who were born, not of bloods, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.' John now stresses that men can only become genuinely ‘children of God' in a spiritual sense when they...
‘But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe on His name.' But even in the world in its darkness there would be those who responded, and...
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...
John 1:13. WHICH WERE BEGOTTEN, NOT OF BLOOD, NOR OF THE WILL OF THE FLESH, NOR OF THE WILL OF MAN, BUT OF GOD. The spiritual history of those who are spoken of in John 1:12 is here continued, and the...
WHICH WERE BORN (ο εγεννηθησαν). First aorist passive indicative of γενναω, to beget, "who were begotten." By spiritual generation (of God, εκ θεου), not by physical (εξ αιματων, plural as common in...
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...
THEY DID NOT BECOME GOD'S CHILDREN BY NATURAL MEANS. Before the Cross, the Jews were God's children, by natural means. After the Cross, the New Birth (John 3:5; Titus 3:5)_ initiates_ people into _spi...
_As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God_ ST. John’s first view of Christ the key to his Gospel I. These verses DESCRIBE THE SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE OF ST. JOHN. In th...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 1:12 RECEIVE HIM means welcoming and submitting to Jesus in a personal relationship. “Believed in” means personal trust. HIS NAME refers to all that is true about Jesus. Born,
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,...
1 Corinthians 3:6; 1 John 2:28; 1 John 2:29; 1 John 3:9; 1 John 4:7;...
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...
Because the bragging Jews did much boast of their natural birth and descent from Abraham, as being his blood and offspring, therefore it is here asserted, that men become not the children of God by na...