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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN.
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IN THE BEGINNING - This expression is used also in Genesis 1:1. John
evidently has allusion here to that place, and he means to apply to
“the Word” an expression which is there applied “to God.” In
bo...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
I. The Only-begotten, the Eternal Word;
His Glory and His Manifestation
-- Chapter 1:1-2:22
CHAPTER 1
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1. The Word: the Creator, the Life and the Light. (John 1:1 .)...
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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...
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THE WORD MADE FLESH.
1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God.
This sublime preface of John carries us back to the account given in
Genesis of the beginning o...
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THE WORD (John 1:1-18)...
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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...
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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...
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IN THE BEGINNING. Greek. _en_ (App-104.) _arche._ Occurs four times in
the N.T. (Compare Genesis 1:1). The context will always supply the
dependent word (where it is not expressed). Here, and in John...
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The Word in His own Nature
1. _In the beginning_ The meaning must depend on the context. In
Genesis 1:1 it is an act done -in the beginning;" here it is a Being
existing -in the beginning," and theref...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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VER 1A. IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD,
CHRYS. While all the other Evangelists begin with the Incarnation,
John, passing over the Conception, Nativity, education, and growth,
speaks immediately of the...
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_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....
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DISCOURSE: 1594
DIVINITY OF CHRIST
John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God_.
WHAT astonishing majesty and dignity are displayed in these brief but
co...
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IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD,— _"In the beginning,_ before the
foundation of the world, or the first production of any created being,
a glorious Person _existed,_ who may properly be called _the Word...
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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.
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The same was in the beginning with God.
3
All things wer...
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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...
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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...
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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God.
As the Fourth Gospel was not written until the other three had become
the household words and daily bread of the Chur...
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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...
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IN THE BEGINNING] not as in Genesis 1:1, 'in the beginning of
creation,' but 'in the beginning of eternity,' i.e. from all eternity:
cp. John 8:58; John 17:5. WAS THE WORD] i.e. the Word existed. 'The...
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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...
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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...
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(1) IN THE BEGINNING. — The reference to the opening words of the
Old Testament is obvious, and is the more striking when we remember
that a Jew would constantly speak of and quote from the book of
Ge...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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In the first verse three things are stated regarding the Logos, the
subject ὁ λόγος being repeated for impressiveness. Westcott
remarks that these three clauses answer to the three great moments of
th...
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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...
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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...
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In (1) the (a) beginning (b) was (c) the Word, and the Word was (d)
with God, and the (e) Word was God.
(1) The Son of God is of one and the selfsame eternity or
everlastingness, and of one and the s...
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In the beginning was the word: [1] or rather, the word was in the
beginning. The eternal word, the increated wisdom, the second Person
of the blessed Trinity, the only begotten Son of the Father, as h...
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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...
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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...
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[See also the "General Considerations on the Prologue" in the comments
of John 1:18.]
At John 1:1, John finds in eternity the subject of the history which
he is going to relate, the Logos; at John 1:2...
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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...
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CONTENTS
John opens his Gospel in this Chapter, with declaring both to the
Godhead and Manhood of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Testimony of John
the Baptist is here given to the Person and Glory of Chr...
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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...
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1._In the beginning was the Speech_. In this introduction he asserts
the eternal Divinity of Christ, in order to inform us that he is the
eternal God, who _was manifested in the flesh_, (1 Timothy 3:1...
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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...
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Ver. 1. IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD,.... That this is said not of
the written word, but of the essential word of God, the Lord Jesus
Christ, is clear, from all that is said from hence, to John 1:14...
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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word
was God.
Ver. 1. _In the beginning_] Here this heavenly eagle, John the
Divine, soars at first out of sight (ο θεολογος κατ
εξοχ...
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_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,...
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IN THE BEGINNING; of the creation. He who was with God in the
beginning of all created things, is before all things, and has existed
from eternity. Compare chap John 17:5; COLOSSIANS 1:17.
THE WORD; a...
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IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD, AND THE WORD
WAS GOD....
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THE PROLOGUE OF THE GOSPEL.
The introduction:...
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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...
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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...
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JOHN CHAPTER 1
1 THESSALONIANS 1:1 The Divinity of Christ.
1 THESSALONIANS 1:6 The mission of John, and end of Christ's coming.
1 THESSALONIANS 1:14
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Epistle of Ignatius to the Tarsians
How could such a one be a mere man, receiving the beginning of His
existence from Mary, and not rather God the Word, and the
only-begotten Son? For "in the beginni...
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John 1:1 In G1722 beginning G746 was G2258 (G5713) Word G3056 and
G2532 Word G3056 was G2258 ...
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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...
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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...
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John 1:1 ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with (face
to face with) God, and what God was the Word was.'
‘In the beginning.' This undoubtedly has in mind the words of
Genesis 1:1 (‘in t...
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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...
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John 1:1. IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD. This sublime opening of the
Gospel carries our thoughts at once to the no less sublime opening of
the Book of Genesis, whose first words the Evangelist certain...
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IN THE BEGINNING
(εν αρχη). Αρχη is definite, though anarthrous like our at
home, in town, and the similar Hebrew _be reshith_ in Genesis 1:1. But
Westcott notes that here John carries our thoughts...
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WORD
(Greek, "logos"); (Aramaic, "Memra," used in the Targums, or Hebrew,
paraphrases, for "God"). The Greek term means,
(1) a thought or concept;
(2) the expression or utterance of that thought. A...
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John 1:1
Why is it that, as you turn the page from St. Luke to St. John you
seem to pass into another climate nay, I might almost say, into
another atmosphere? The answer is at least twofold. It is, f...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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_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,...
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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-
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THE
HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST,
ACCORDING TO JOHN.
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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,...
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1 John 1:1; 1 John 1:2; 1 John 5:20; 1 John 5:7; 1 Timothy 3:16;...
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In the beginning was [ε ν α ρ χ η η ν]. With evident allusion
to the first word of Genesis. But John elevates the phrase from its
reference to a point of time, the beginning of creation, to the time
o...
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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...
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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...
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In the beginning — (Referring to Genesis 1:1, and Proverbs 8:23.)
When all things began to be made by the Word: in the beginning of
heaven and earth, and this whole frame of created beings, the Word
e...
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Is Jesus God or just a god?
PROBLEM: Orthodox Christians believe Jesus is God and often appeal to
this passage to prove it. However, Jehovah’s Witnesses translate
this verse “and the Word (Christ) wa...
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Observe here, 1. The person spoken of, Jesus Christ, under the name of
the WORD. IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD. Because God spake to us by
him, and makes known his will to us by Christ, as we make kno...