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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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John 1:12
“But to all who did receive Him, who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God.” In the previous verse, John was showing how Jesus came to His own and His own did not receive Him. This verse follows up with that to show what happens to those who do receive Jesus. As…
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John 1:11
“He came to his own, and His own people did not receive Him.” John is showing where Jesus came to earth in this verse. This will be in direct opposition to the way they receive him. When John says that “He came to His own” it is literally meant that He came to His own…
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John 1:10
“He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, yet the world did not know Him.” John brings together a concept from previous statements along with a new concept. The previous concept is that the WORD is God who has created everything. This is a summarization of verse 3: “All things were…
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John 1:9
“The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.” It is really interesting how John distinguishes, here, between the light and the true light. There have been other lights you can consider such as the prophets or even the law given to Moses to be light. John is making sure…
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