And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.

The Word assumed. human form and became incarnate as the child of Mary. It did not merely manifest itself, but dwelt among us for about thirty-three years. There was already. heretical sect, the Gnostics referred to in 2 John 1:7, who denied that Christ had come in the flesh. The apostle here makes this positive statement to meet this heresy.

And we beheld his glory.

Peter, James and John not only beheld the sinless and godlike life of Christ, but they saw the glory of the Mount of Transfiguration, "the glory as of the only begotten of the Father."

Full of grace and truth.

The Word incarnate, Christ, was full of grace and truth; his mission was one of grace or favor to men, and he was the Truth, as well as the Way and the Life.

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