JOHN—NOTE ON John 1:18 No one has ever seen God, that is, in a full and complete way (see John 6:46). the only God. Some ancient manuscripts say “the only Son” here (see esv footnote); the earliest manuscripts say “the only God.” John refers here to two different persons as “God,” as he did in John 1:1. Thus John concludes the prologue by emphasizing what he taught in v. John 1:1: Jesus is God, and he has revealed and explained God to humanity.

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