• John 1:7-8

    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…

  • John 1:4

    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…

  • John 1:2+3

    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…

  • Intro to John

    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…