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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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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…
The Traveling Mountains 