And — Here the apostle confirms the Baptist's words: as if he had said, He is indeed preferred before thee: so we have experienced: We all — That believe: have received — All that we enjoy out of his fulness: and in the particular, grace upon grace — One blessing upon another, immeasurable grace and love.
Verse John 1:16. This verse should be put in place of the _fifteenth_, and the 15th inserted between the 18th and 19th, which appears to be its proper place: thus John's testimony is properly connecte...
OF HIS FULNESS - In John 1:14 the evangelist has said that Christ was “full of grace and truth.” Of that “fullness” he now says that all the disciples had received; that is, they derived from his abun...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. The Only-begotten, the Eternal Word; His Glory and His Manifestation -- Chapter 1:1-2:22 CHAPTER 1 __ 1. The Word: the Creator, the Life and the Light. (John 1:1 .)...
THE FULL AND FINAL REVELATION. The work of the Logos culminated in what alone could give to men a complete and intelligible revelation, so far as man can grasp it, of the nature and being of God. The...
OUT OF HIS FULNESS HAVE WE ALL RECEIVED. It is John, the apostle, who speaks. The thought refers to the two preceding verses. John had seen the glory of Christ, who was "full" of grace and truth, and...
John was his witness and his statement still sounds out: "This is he of whom I said to you, he who comes after me has been advanced before me, because he was before me." On his fullness we all of us h...
THE WORD (John 1:1-18)...
When the world had its beginning, the Word was already there; and the Word was with God; and the Word was God. This Word was in the beginning with God. He was the agent through whom all things were ma...
AND. The texts read "For", but not the Syriac. FULNESS. Greek _pleroma._ ALL the. The Evangelist speaks here, not the Baptist. GRACE FOR GRACE. grace in place of grace; new grace, continuous, and u...
The testimony of the Baptist to the incarnate Word is confirmed by the experience of all believers. The Evangelist is the speaker. _And_ The true reading gives BECAUSE. _fullness_ The Greek word, _pl...
John 1:1-18. The Prologue or Introduction That the first eighteen verses are introductory is universally admitted: commentators are not so unanimous as to the main divisions of this introduction. A d...
1–18. The Prologue or Introduction in three parts. 1–5: The Word in His own nature. 6–13: His Revelation to men and rejection by them. 14–18: His Revelation of the Father. The three great characterist...
THE INCARNATE WORD’S REVELATION OF THE FATHER...
ὍΤΙ with אBC1DLX for καί of T. R. with Acts 3, perhaps to avoid ὅτι thrice in three lines. 16. The Baptist’s witness to the incarnate Logos confirmed by the experience of all believers. The Evangelis...
VER 16. AND OF HIS FULLNESS HAVE ALL WE RECEIVED, AND GRACE FOR GRACE. 17. FOR THE LAW WAS GIVEN BY MOSES, BUT GRACE AND TRUTH CAME BY JESUS CHRIST. ORIGEN; This is to be considered a continuation of...
_THE ETERNAL "WORD" OF GOD IS JESUS-- JOHN 1:1-18:_ Jesus is pictured as "the Word" who was in the beginning with God. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God....
ΠΛΗΡΏΜΑΤΟΣ _gen. sing. от_ ΠΛΉΡΩΜΑ (G4138) полнота; то, что наполнено, — в пассивном плане — или то, что наполняет, — в активном плане (Morris; TDNT). ΚΑΊ (G2532) даже, обобщающее, ΆΝΤ (G473) вместо...
DISCOURSE: 1599 THE BELIEVER’S INTEREST IN CHRIST’S FULNESS John 1:16. _Of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace_. THE sacred writers never seem to be afraid lest they should exalt Ch...
AND OF HIS FULNESS, &C.— _"And_ I, (John the apostle) who had the honour of being numbered among his most intimate friends, would with pleasure, in my own name, and that of my brethren; add my testimo...
EXPOSITORY SERMON NO. 1 THE BIRTH OF CHRIST INTERPRETED John 1:1-18 _Introduction_ I. TELL BIRTH STORY BRIEFLY (Luke 2:1-52). A. John's Prologue gives the definition of Christmas. B. Especiall...
THE WORD MANIFESTED TO OTHERS AND THEIR ACCEPTANCE OF HIM _Text 1:12-18_ 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name:...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 1:14-18 We first submit a brief Analysis of the passage which is to be before us—John 1:14-18. We have here:— 1. Christ’s Incarnation—"The word became flesh":...
And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. AND OF HIS FULLNESS - that is, of grace and truth; resuming the thread of John 1:14, which had only been interrupted for the purpose o...
As God always was, there is no absolute beginning brought before us in the Scriptures. Both here and in Gen.11 the article _ the _ is lacking in the originals, showing that it refers to the commenceme...
THE DIVINITY AND INCARNATION OF THE WORD. WITNESS OF JOHN. THE FIRST DISCIPLES 1-18. Preface, declaring (1) that the Word was God, (2) that He was made man, (3) that He revealed the Father. This subl...
OF HIS FULNESS] 'Fulness' (_pleroma_) was a word much used (and abused) by the Gnostics against whom St. John contended. Here it means, (1) the fulness of the divine attributes which dwelt in Christ ...
THE PREFACE CONCLUDED. The 'we' of John 1:16 shows that these vv. are not words of the Baptist, but that they express the spiritual experience of Christ's disciples, in whose name the evangelist speak...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ THE AUTHOR Most people agree that John, Jesus’ *disciple, wrote the 4th *Gospel. John’s father was called Zebedee. And John had...
AND OF HIS FULNESS. — Not a continuance of the witness of John, but the words of the evangelist, and closely connected with John 1:14. This is seen in the “all we,” and in “fulness” (“full”) and “grac...
John 1:15 CHAPTER 3 THE BAPTIST'S TESTIMONY. “There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, that all might believe throug...
CHAPTER 2 RECEPTION CHRIST MET WITH. John 1:1. In describing the Word of God, John mentions two attributes of His by which His relation to men becomes apparent: “All things were made by Him,” and “t...
ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ πληρώματος … χάριτος, “because out of His fulness have we all received”. The ὅτι does not continue the Baptist's testimony, but refers to πλήρης in John 1:14. In Colossians 2:9 Paul says th...
_The manifestation of the Logos defined as Incarnation_....
THE VOICE OF PROMISE John 1:14-28 Note that the Revised Version changes the words was _made_ to _became,_ John 1:14. Evidently Jesus had existed before this becoming; and evidently there was a proces...
The Gospel of John brings us into the profoundest facts concerning the Person of Jesus. The first eighteen verses constitute the introduction to the whole Book. The main declaration is found by bringi...
(9) And of his fulness have all we received, and (d) grace for grace. (9) Christ is the most plentiful fountain of all goodness, but he gave out his gifts most bountifully at that time when he exhibi...
And of his fulness we all have received; not only Jews, but also all nations. --- And grace for grace. [5] It may perhaps be translated grace upon grace, as Mr. Blackwall observes, and brings a parall...
TESTIMONY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST John 1:6-51. _“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, that he may testify concerning the Light, in order that all may believe th...
PROLOGUE: 1:1-18. EACH evangelist begins his book in a manner appropriate to the aim of his narrative. Matthew proposes to prove the _right_ of Jesus to the Messianic throne. He opens his story with H...
THIRD SECTION: FAITH, 1:12-18. [See also the "General Considerations on the Prologue" in the comments of John 1:18.] The appearance of the Word, therefore, did not succeed in scattering the darkness...
[See also the "General Considerations on the Prologue" in the comments of John 1:18.] VER. 16. “ _And of his fullness we have all received, and grace for grace._ ” By that first feature of the divine...
John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. (16) And of his fulness have all we received, and grace...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
16._And out of his fullness_. He begins now to preach about the office of Christ, that it contains within itself an abundance of all blessings, so that no part of salvation must be sought anywhere els...
The first chapter asserts what He was before all things, and the different characters in which He is a blessing to man, being made flesh. He is, and He is the expression of, the whole mind that subsis...
AND OF HIS FULNESS HAVE ALL WE RECEIVED,.... These are the words not of John the Baptist; but of the evangelist carrying on his account of Christ, after he had inserted the testimony of the Baptist, i...
And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. Ver. 16. _Of his fulness_] Which is both repletive and diffusive; not only of plenty, but of bounty; not a fulness of abundance only, but...
John 1:16. "And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace;" that is, he has a fullness of grace, and we receive grace from him, answerable to his grace - grace _for_ grace, that is grac...
_And of his fulness have all we received_ These are not the words of the Baptist, as the expression, _we all_, shows; for those to whom he addressed himself do not appear to have received grace from C...
ALL WE; disciples of Christ. GRACE FOR GRACE; the fuller grace of the gospel for the less grace of the law; or, as some understand the words, continually new and larger measures of grace-all needed v...
The closing testimony of the prologue:...
AND OF HIS FULLNESS HAVE ALL WE RECEIVED, AND GRACE FOR GRACE....
CHRIST THE LIVING WORD (vs.1-5) Revelation 19:13, speaking of the Lord Jesus, says, "His name is called the Word of God." As such He had no beginning: in the beginning He was there. In person He is...
15-18 As to the order of time and entrance on his work, Christ came after John, but in every other way he was before him. The expression clearly shows that Jesus had existence before he appeared on e...
AND OF HIS FULNESS HAVE ALL WE RECEIVED; of that plenty of grace which Christ hath, (who hath not the Spirit given him _by measure,_ 1 THESSALONIANS 3:34, as other saints have, ACTS 2:4,6,8), we who b...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I For of the prophets it is said, "We have all received of His fulness,"[197] Tertullian On Baptism as figurative of things spiritual. And thus, when the grace o...
John 1:16 And G2532 of G1537 His G846 fullness G4138 we G2249 have G2983 all G3956 received G2983 ...
‘For of his fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace, for the Law (the Torah) was given by Moses, grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.' The author now stresses the overflowing wonder of wh...
THE WORD WAS GOD (JOHN 1:1). John commences his Gospel by speaking of ‘the Word' (i.e. the One through Whom God has acted and spoken'), and later he adds, ‘all things were made by Him' (John 1:3) and...
The content of Jonah's prophecy, which is described in the usual terms of ‘the word of YHWH', is depicted as being that YHWH wanted the wickedness of Nineveh to be brought to the attention of its peop...
John 1:16. BECAUSE OUT OF HIS FULLNESS WE ALL RECEIVED, AND GRACE FOR GRACE. In order to understand this verse, and especially the very difficult word ‘because,' with which the true read ing of the ve...
The Prologue of the Gospel of John stands in the most intimate connection with the plan and purpose of the Gospel as a whole. It is not to be regarded as a philosophical speculation to which the histo...
FOR (οτ). Correct text (Aleph B C D L) and not κα (and) of the Textus Receptus. Explanatory reason for verse John 1:14.OF HIS FULNESS (εκ του πληρωματος). The only instance of πληρωμα in John's wr...
John 1:16 From this passage some lessons of great importance come to us. As I. That we should not try to live in the past, or by means of the past. As distinct from the present, we should not try to...
John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word,_ Christ the Word has existed from all eternity. He is the eternal Son of the eternal Father; he is really what Melchisedec was metaphorically, «having neithe...
May the Holy Spirit, who inspired these words, inspire us through them as we read them! John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word._ The divine Logos, whom we know as the Christ of God. «In the beginn...
John is the majestic Evangelist; he is the high-soaring eagle with the piercing eye. His is the Gospel of the Son of God. John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the...
John 1:15. _John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me._ He was not before John in the order of hum...
CONTENTS: Deity of Christ. Ministry of John the Baptist. Jesus announced as the Lamb of God, and the first converts to Him. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, John the Baptist, Moses, Elias, Isaiah, Pharisees,...
John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word._ Εν αρχη ο λογος. John begins the new creation with the words of Moses of the old creation, and continues to speak of Christ in the running language of all th...
OUT OF THE FULNESS OF HIS GRACE. See Colossians 1:19. His "grace and truth" bless all who _belong_ to him. GIVING US ONE BLESSING AFTER ANOTHER. He is a _"stream of water, flowing ever deeper!"_...
_Of His fulness have all we received_ THE FULNESS OF CHRIST The word “fulness” is given to vessels that are brimful of liquor, and so is metaphorically applied to Christ, who is brimful of grace. I...
_John bare witness of Him_ THE PRE-EMINENCE OF CHRIST I. CHRIST’S SUPERIORITY TO JOHN THE BAPTIST. 1. John refers to and repeats previous testimonies, applying them to Him whom the congregation had...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 1:16 In the LAW, God graciously revealed his character and the things he required of his people. JESUS, however, is the final, definitive revelation of God’s grace and truth
JOHN 1:1 Prologue: The Incarnate Word. John presents Jesus as the eternal, preexistent, and now incarnate Word (vv. John 1:1, John 1:14). Jesus is the one-of-
THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, ACCORDING TO JOHN. T HIS is the title in the Greek and Latin codices. In the Syriac it is as follows, _The Holy Gospel, the Preaching of Jouchanon_ (John), _which...
_ Was made_ : not that the Word was changed into flesh, or flesh into the Word, for, as S. Chrysostom says, "far from that immortal nature is transmutation." For how could flesh become God, that is, h...
_For the law was given by Moses_, &c. He gives the reason why through Christ we have received _grace for grace_. It is because Moses, who was the Jews' greatest prophet and lawgiver, could only give a...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 1:1. IN THE BEGINNING, etc.—ἐν�. The בְּרֵאשִׁית etc., of Genesis 1 denotes the beginning of that movement of the divine creative energy from which sprang the vis...
EXPOSITION THE title of the book is differently given in the manuscripts and ancient versions, and the differences are so considerable that they cannot be referred to the original text. The simplest f...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to the gospel according to John. The gospel of John was the last of the gospels that were written. It was written towards the close of that first century, written by John,...
1 Corinthians 1:4; 1 Corinthians 1:5; 1 Peter 1:11; 1 Peter 1:2;...
SEEING CHRIST IN JOHN John 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is not difficult for us to find the Lord Jesus in the Book of John. We have always been told that John, by the Holy Ghost, sets forth the Deity...
VISIONS OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST John 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Four Gospels present the Lord Jesus Christ under four distinct aspects. The Gospel of John tells us of Christ, in His all-glorious D...