Geneva Study Bible Commentary
John 1:10
(q) He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
(q) The person of the Word was made manifest even at that time when the world was made.
(q) He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
(q) The person of the Word was made manifest even at that time when the world was made.
Verse John 1:10. _HE WAS IN THE WORLD_] From its very commencement-he governed the universe-regulated his Church-spake by his prophets-and often, as the angel or messenger of Jehovah, appeared to them...
HE WAS IN THE WORLD - This refers, probably, not to his pre-existence, but to the fact that he became incarnate; that he dwelt among human beings. AND THE WORLD WAS MADE BY HIM - This is a repetition...
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...
HE WAS IN THE WORLD, AND THE WORLD WAS MADE BY HIM, AND THE WORLD KNEW HIM NOT. John has just spoken of the personal coming of the Light of the world. Lest any one should forget that he was already in...
He was in the world, and, although the world came into being through him, the world did not recognize him. It was into his own home that he came, and his own people did not welcome him. When John wro...
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...
WAS MADE. came into being. KNEW. Greek. _ginosko._ App-132. One of the characteristic words of this Gospel. See p. 1511....
_and the world_ Note three points; (1) the close connexion obtained by repetition, as in John 1:4; (2) the tragic tone, as in John 1:5; (3) the climax. -He was in the world" (therefore the world shoul...
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...
ΚΑῚ Ὁ ΚΌΣΜΟΣ. Close connexion obtained by repetition, as in John 1:4-5; also the tragic tone, as in John 1:5. Moreover, there is a climax: ‘He was in the world;’ (therefore it should have known Him;)...
VER 10. HE WAS IN THE WORLD, AND THE WORLD WAS MADE BY HIM, AND THE WORLD KNEW HIM NOT. AUG. The Light which lightens every man that comes into the world, came here in the flesh; because while He was...
_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....
ΈΓΝΩ _aor. ind. act. 3 pers. sing. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать, признавать; скорее всего, указывает не на интеллектуальное знание, но обозначает "правильно относиться к чему-л." (Morris). Недостаток при...
DISCOURSE: 1596 BENEFIT OF RECEIVING CHRIST John 1:10. _He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many...
HE WAS IN THE WORLD, &C.— The Word and Son of God came down to earth; and though the world was made by him, all the inhabitants thereof being the work of his hands, yet that very world, that is, those...
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...
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...
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...
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. HE WAS IN THE WORLD (AS ALREADY HINTED, AND PRESENTLY TO BE MORE EXPLICITLY ANNOUNCED), AND THE WORLD WAS MADE BY HI...
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...
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...
IN THE WORLD. — This manifestation in the flesh recalls the pre-incarnate existence during the whole history of the world, and the creative act itself. (Comp. John 1:2, Note). The two facts are the co...
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...
ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ … οὐκ ἔγνω. John 1:10-11 briefly summarise what happened when the Logos, the Light, came into the world. John has said: “The Light was coming into the world”; take now a further step, ἐν τ...
_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...
_He was in the world, &c. Many of the ancient interpreters understand this verse of Christ as God, who was in the world from its first creation, producing and governing all things: but the blind sinfu...
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. 10. “ _He was in the world and the world had been made by Him, and the world knew Him not._ ” A contrast is...
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...
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...
_BLINDNESS OF HEART_ ‘He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.’ John 1:10 These are the words in which the last of the Apostles summed up the direct and visib...
10._He was in the world_. He accuses men of ingratitude, because of their own accord, as it were, they were so blinded, that the cause of the light which they enjoyed was unknown to them. This extends...
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...
HE WAS IN THE WORLD,.... This is to be understood, not of his incarnation; for the word was denotes past existence in the world, even all the time past from the creation of the world; and the world in...
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. Ver. 10. _He was in the world_] Here the evangelist goes on where he left: resumes, and proceeds in his former argument...
_He was in the world_ From the beginning, frequently appearing, and making known to his servants, the patriarchs and prophets, the divine will, in dreams and visions, and various other ways: _and the...
IN THE WORLD; as its Creator, Instructor, and Redeemer. KNEW HIM NOT; did not apprehend his true character....
HE WAS IN THE WORLD, AND THE WORLD WAS MADE BY HIM, AND THE WORLD KNEW HIM NOT....
The relation of Jesus to the world:...
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...
HE WAS IN THE WORLD; he was in the place called _the world, _ and amongst the men of the world; for so the term _world_ is often taken, 1 THESSALONIANS 16:28 2 PETER 3:6. Christ, before he came in the...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I And John, the disciple of the Lord, has intensified their condemnation, when he desires us not even to address to them the salutation of "good-speed; "for, says he, ...
John 1:10 was G2258 (G5713) in G1722 world G2889 and G2532 world G2889 made G1096 (G5633) through...
‘He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world did not know him.' This verse reflects the different meanings of the word ‘world' in the Gospel. In the Gospel ‘the world' generally...
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...
John 1:10. He WAS IN THE WORLD, AND THE WORLD CAME INTO BEING THROUGH HIM, AND THE WORLD KNEW HIM NOT. The subject is still the Light, which (John 1:9) was existent, and was ‘coming into the world.' I...
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...
HE WAS IN THE WORLD (εν τω κοσμω ην). Imperfect tense of continuous existence in the universe before the Incarnation as in verses John 1:1; John 1:2.WAS MADE BY HIM (δι' αυτου εγενετο). "Through h...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos" means "mankind". (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _...
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 MADE THE WORLD THROUGH HIM. See Colossians 1:16. He was: in the world; God made the world through him; the world did not know him. HE CAME TO HIS OWN COUNTRY. When he became a human being, he took...
_He was in the world_ THE TREATMENT OF CHRIST BY MEN I. By the WORLD. 1. They were in a condition in which they might have known much of Him. He made the world and preserved it and was in it. Yet t...
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 1:21; 1 Corinthians 2:8; 1 John 3:1; Acts 14:17;...
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...
He was in the world — Even from the creation....
HE WAS IN THE WORLD, that is, he that was God from eternity, made himself visible to the world in the fulness of time. The evangelist repeats it again, that THE WORLD WAS MADE BY HIM, to show his omni...