Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 1:2
The same was in the beginning with God — This verse repeats and contracts into one the three points mentioned before. As if he had said, This Word, who was God, was in the beginning, and was with God.
The same was in the beginning with God — This verse repeats and contracts into one the three points mentioned before. As if he had said, This Word, who was God, was in the beginning, and was with God.
THE SAME - The Word, or the λόγος Logos. WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD - This seems to be a repetition of what was said in the first verse; but it is stated over again to “guard the doctrine,” and to...
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...
THE SAME WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD. John reiterates. part of his first statement, partly for emphasis, and partly to bring out the thought that there is. real distinction between the Word and the...
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...
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. The beginning of John's gospel is of such impor...
THE SAME. This [Word], or He....
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 same_ More literally, HE or THIS (Word), with emphasis (comp. John 7:18). This verse takes up the first two clauses and combines them. Such recapitulations are characteristic of S. John....
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....
ΟΥ̓͂ΤΟΣ ἮΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. Takes up the first two clauses and combines them. Such recapitulations are characteristic of S. John. Οὗτος, HE or THIS (Word), illustrates S. John’s habit of using a demonstrative p...
Ver 2. The same was in the beginning with God. HILARY; Whereas he had said, the Word was God, the fearfulness, and strangeness of the speech disturbed me; the prophets having declared that God was One...
_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....
ΟΎΤΟΣ (G3778) _указат. prop. пот. masc._ этот. Относится ко всему предыдущему определению, акцентируя его (Westcott)....
THE SAME WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD.— The Socinians, who have laboured hard to subvert the authority of this stubborn portion of scripture, most perversely understand this passage of Christ's being...
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 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...
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...
The same was in the beginning with God. THE SAME WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD. Here the first and second statements are combined into one; emphatically reiterating the eternal distinctness of the...
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...
1:2 _ He_ (c-1) In John, the personal pronoun, generally emphatic in Greek where inserted, is used so constantly that it can hardly be considered such in many cases, but certain instances which are c...
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...
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...
THE SAME WAS. — This is a summary in one clause of the three assertions made in the first verse. THE SAME, that is, the Word who was God, existed before any act of creation, and in that existence was...
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...
οὑτος ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν θεόν. Not a mere repetition of what has been said in John 1:1. There John has said that the Word was in the beginning and also that He was with God: here he indicates that th...
_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...
_The same was in the beginning with God. In the text is only, "this was in the beginning;" but the sense and construction certainly is, this word was in the beginning. (Witham)_...
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. 2. “ _This Word was in the beginning with God._ ” With this Logos which John has in a manner just discovered...
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...
2._He was in the beginning_. In order to impress more deeply on our minds what had been already said, the Evangelist condenses the two preceding clauses into a brief summary, that _the Speech _always...
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...
THE SAME WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD. This is a repetition of what is before said, and is made to show the importance of the truths before delivered; namely, the eternity of Christ, his distinct per...
The same was in the beginning with God. Ver. 2. _The same was in the beginning_] In the instant of creation, as Genesis 1:1, therefore also before the creation, therefore from eternity, Eph 1:4; 1 Pe...
_In the beginning_ Namely, of the creation, (for the evangelist evidently refers to the first word of the book of Genesis, בראשׁית, _bereshith_, rendered by the LXX. εν αρχη, the expression here used,...
THE SAME WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD....
THE PROLOGUE OF THE GOSPEL. The introduction:...
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...
These words of the evangelist are a further confirmation and explication of what the evangelist had said before; asserting the eternity of the Son, and his relation to the Father, and oneness of essen...
Tertullian On the Flesh of Christ For its salvation is endangered, not by its being ignorant of itself, but of the word of God. "The life," says He, "was manifested,"[179] Hippolytus Refutation of A...
John 1:2 He G3778 was G2258 (G5713) in G1722 beginning G746 with G4314 God G2316...
‘And the Word was with God.' ‘With God' in the Greek is ‘pros ton theon' i.e. ‘towards God', signifying close relationship. It reflects more than just being ‘with God'. We might translate ‘face to fac...
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 1:2. THE SAME WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD. ‘The same' He who has just been spoken of as God was in the beginning ‘with God': _i.e.,_ ‘He of whom I have spoken as God, was in the beginning in ac...
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...
THE SAME (ουτος). "This one," the Logos of verse John 1:1, repeated for clarity, characteristic of John's style. He links together into one phrase two of the ideas already stated separately, "in th...
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...
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,...
_The same was in the beginning with God._ This repetition teaches I. HOW LITTLE ABLE WE ARE TO COMPREHEND THIS GREAT MYSTERY, which we can but take in by little and little, and must put that togethe...
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,...
The same [ο υ τ ο ς]. Literally, this one; the one first named; the Word. Was in the beginning with God. In ver. 1 the elements of this statement have been given separately : the Word, the eternal bei...
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...