Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 1:6
There was a man — The evangelist now proceeds to him who testified of the light, which he had spoken of in John 1:1.
There was a man — The evangelist now proceeds to him who testified of the light, which he had spoken of in John 1:1.
Verse John 1:6. _WHOSE NAME_ WAS _JOHN._] This was John the Baptist; see his name and the nature of his office explained, Mark 1:4, and Matthew 3:1....
A MAN SENT FROM GOD - See Matthew 3. The evangelist proceeds now to show that John the Baptist was not the Messiah and to state the true nature of his office. Many had supposed that he was the Christ,...
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...
THERE WAS. MAN SENT FROM GOD WHOSE NAME WAS JOHN. Having declared the pre-existence of Christ, the apostle now begins the history of the Word being made flesh and dwelling among men as the Light of th...
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...
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)...
THERE WAS. There arose. Not the same word as in John 1:1. SENT. Compare Malachi 3:1. Greek _apostello_ (App-174.), whence we have our "Apostle". one sent. John not only came, but was "sent". FROM. fr...
The Word revealed to Men and rejected by them 6. _There was a man_ Rather, _There_ AROSE _a man_, in contrast to the -was" in John 1:1. The word _was_from all eternity; John _arose_, came into existe...
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...
ἘΓΈΝΕΤΟ ἌΝ. The contrast between ἐγένετο and ἦν is carefully maintained and should be preserved in translation: not ‘there _was_ a man’ but ‘there _arose_ a man;’ ἄνθρωπος, ‘a human being,’ in contras...
THE WORD REVEALED TO MEN AND REJECTED BY THEM...
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....
ΑΠΕΣΤΑΛΜΈΝΟΣ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΆΠΟΣΤΈΛΛΩ (G89) посылать, отправлять, посылать с поручением в качестве личного представителя (TDNT; EDNT). _Perf._ подчеркивает существующий результат. _Adj. part._...
THERE WAS A MAN SENT FROM GOD,— The evangelist, in giving the history of the Baptist's ministry, tells us, in the first place that he was merely _a man,_ in opposition to article 10 in the argument wh...
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 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...
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...
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. THERE WAS A MAN SENT FROM GOD, WHOSE NAME WAS JOHN. In approaching his grand thesis-the historical manifestation of the Word-our Evangelist begin...
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...
1:6 from (e-6) _ Para_ , with genitive, 'from with,' see v. 14, Note d....
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...
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...
THERE WAS A MAN, OR, _THERE APPEARED A MAN._ The word is the same as that which is used in John 1:3, “were made,” “was made,” and, as contrasted with the verb “was” in John 1:1; John 1:4, signifies th...
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 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...
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...
_The historic manifestation of the Logos and its results_....
In this verse John passes to the historical; and like the other evangelists begins with the Baptist. So Theodore Mops: μετεληλυθὼς ἐπὶ τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν τοῦ υἱοῦ, τίνα ἄν εὗρεν ἀρχὴν ἑτέραν ἤ τὰ κατὰ τὸν...
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...
(4) There was a man sent from God, whose name [was] John. (4) There is another more full manifestation of the Son of God, by the consideration of which men are in good time stirred up, even to John's...
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. 6. “ _There appeared a man sent from God; his name was John._ ” The forerunner is not mentioned here as repr...
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...
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...
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...
_CHARACTERISTICS OF THE BAPTIST_ ‘There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.’ John 1:6 There are two things about John which we have to remember:— I. HE WAS A FEARLESS MAN.—In those days,...
6._There was a man_. The Evangelist now begins to discourse about the manner in which the Son of God was manifested in flesh; and that none may doubt that Christ is the eternal Son of God, he relates...
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...
THERE WAS A MAN SENT FROM GOD,.... John the Baptist: he was not the Logos, or word; nor was he an angel, but a man; yet an extraordinary one, in his conception of a barren woman, and in being born whe...
There was a man sent from God, whose name _was_ John. Ver. 6. _There was a man sent from God_] As he ran not, till sent,Jeremiah 23:32. St Paul holds it not only for incredible, but for impossible, t...
_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...
JOHN; John the Baptist. Matthew 3:1....
John the Baptist and the Logos:...
THERE WAS A MAN SENT FROM GOD WHOSE NAME WAS JOHN....
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...
THERE WAS A MAN SENT FROM GOD; not the Christ, not an angel, but _a man; _ yet one, than whom (as our Saviour saith) there had not risen a greater amongst those that were born of women. He did not com...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III The same came as a witness, that he might bear witness of that Light. He was not that Light, but [came] that he might testify of the Light."[128] Clement of Alexan...
John 1:6 was G1096 (G5633) man G444 sent G649 (G5772) from G3844 God G2316 whose G846 name G368
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...
‘There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness that he might bear witness of the light that all may believe through him.' For the Word did not come unheralded. ‘A m...
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 1:6. THERE AROSE A MAN, SENT FROM GOD, whose name was John. With this verse we pass forward into the times of the Incarnate Word. The section upon which we first enter is, as compared with the se...
THERE CAME A MAN (εγενετο ανθρωπος). Definite event in the long darkness, same verb in verse John 1:3.SENT (απεσταλμενος). Perfect passive participle of αποστελλω, to send.FROM GOD (παρα θεου)....
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...
GOD SENT HIS MESSENGER. The "advance man" is now introduced. This is John the Baptist. He was appointed to this mission, even before his birth....
_There was a man sent from God whose name was John_ THE FORERUNNER I. THE MISSION OF THE BAPTIST. 1. It was immediately connected with the appearance of the Word in the flesh. 2. It was of God. An...
A TRUE HERO There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. John 1:6. The house into which this great man of the Bible was born reminds one of the homes of some of the great men of Scotland. T...
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 13:24; Isaiah 40:3; John 1:33; John 3:28; Luke 1:13;...
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...
Here the evangelist proceeds in declaring Christ to be really God, because he was that original, that essential light, which had no beginning, suffers no decay, but is so diffusive, and in some kind a...