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John 1:7-8
“He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.” John the Baptist is still being talked about here in this passage. We see the mission for which God has sent him—to bear…
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John 1:6
“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.” After talking about the God man, Jesus, a second man is introduced. Who is this man? He is the man simply described in his introduction as a man sent from God. John the Baptist—not to be confused with John the writer of the gospel—is the…
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John 1:5
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” There are two competing forces that Johns shows in this verse: the light and the darkness. These have always been commonly known to oppose each other, but what do they represent? The Light we get clues to what it represents in…
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John 1:4
“In him was life, and the life was the light of men” The previous context for this verse is how Jesus is the creator of all things and how nothing was made without Him. Here, we see the paraphrase of this context “in Him was life.” Reiterating in practical terms the same thing that…
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John 1:2+3
“He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without Him was not any thing made that was made.” The first phrase is a repeat of what came in the first verse to emphasize how important it is to know that Jesus was in the beginning with God. This is…
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John 1:1
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” As this is the beginning of the gospel of John there, is not previous context in this book. The first phrase gives us all the context we need, “In the Beginning.” John is starting all the way…
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Intro to John
I will be going through John Verse by verse over the next forseeable future. I want to use this to help people supplement their own scripture reading as I think it is really important that everyone reads the Bible everyday. I will be going through John in the English Standard version for anyone who wants…
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More Than Conquerors
Romans 8:37-39 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us…
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What Will Separate Us?
Romans 8:34-36 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?As it…
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Who Will Bring a Charge?
Romans 8:31-33 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect?…
The Traveling Mountains 