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John 1:24-28
“Now the Pharisees who had been sent questioned him, ‘Why then do you baptize if you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?’ ‘I baptize with water,’ John replied, ‘but among you stands one you do not know. He is the one who comes after me, the straps of whose sandals I am…
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John 1:21-23
John 1:21-23 They asked him, “Then who are you? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.” Finally, they said, “Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?” John replied in the words of Isaiah…
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John 1:20
“He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, ‘I am not the Christ.’” The author John shows in this verse the response that John the Baptist has to the question from the priests and the Levites of “Who are you?” John the Baptist does not tell them who he is but who he is…
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John 1:19
“And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, ‘Who are you?’” The author of the gospel, John, goes back to mentioning John the Baptist for the third time in the chapter. This is the start of the actual story. What John has been talking about…
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John 1:18
“No one has ever seen God; God the only Son, who is at the Father’s side, He has made Him known.” John has just made the comparison between the law that came through Moses and Jesus who brings the grace and truth of that law. Now John is making another comparison, between God the Son and God…
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John 1:17
“For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” John has just talked about the fullness of Jesus, how He contains enough in Himself not just to be complete but to give this fullness to the rest of the world, His grace and truth. In this next verse, John…
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John 1:16
“For from His fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.” John continues His explanation, after his example of a witness, of grace and truth that Jesus brings. As we have seen earlier in the passage, Jesus came in the flesh and He is the from the Father full of grace of truth. In this verse,…
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John 1:15
“John bore witness about Him, and cried out, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because He was before me.’” John wrote this verse as an example of what he had been talking about. John has been showing us two men as a comparison. One is…
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John 1:14
“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” This verse is one of the most important verses in John. It is often overlooked because it is not as flashy, but it encapsulates what the gospel is about. It doesn’t…
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John 1:13
“who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.’ This is a continuation of the verse before. It is an explanation of what it means to be a child of God. As we explored last week, those who receive Jesus and believe in His…
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