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 characteristics of this Gospel, simplicity, subtlety, sublimity, are conspicuous in the prologue: the majesty of the first words is marvellous. The Gospel of the Son of Thunder opens with a peal.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN. -Usherian years of the World, 3999-4033. -Alexandrian years of the World, 5497-5531. -Antiochian years of the World, 5487-5621. -Constantinopolitan AEra of the Wo...
IN THE BEGINNING - This expression is used also in Genesis 1:1. John evidently has allusion here to that place, and he means to apply to “the Word” an expression which is there applied “to God.” In bo...
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 PROLOGUE: See Introduction. JOHN 1:1. THE WORD IN RELATION TO GOD AND CREATION. The references to the language and thought of _Genesis 1_ are clear. At the time of creation, if the phrase may be...
THE WORD MADE FLESH. 1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. This sublime preface of John carries us back to the account given in Genesis of the beginning o...
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...
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. The beginning of John's gospel is of such impor...
IN THE BEGINNING. Greek. _en_ (App-104.) _arche._ Occurs four times in the N.T. (Compare Genesis 1:1). The context will always supply the dependent word (where it is not expressed). Here, and in John...
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...
The Word in His own Nature 1. _In the beginning_ The meaning must depend on the context. In Genesis 1:1 it is an act done -in the beginning;" here it is a Being existing -in the beginning," and theref...
VER 1A. IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, CHRYS. While all the other Evangelists begin with the Incarnation, John, passing over the Conception, Nativity, education, and growth, speaks immediately of the...
_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....
ΆΡΧΉ (G710) _dat. sing._ начало. Относится к периоду до сотворения мира и является скорее качественным, чем _temp._ (Brown). Так как артикля нет, это слово может относиться к любому возможному началу....
DISCOURSE: 1594 DIVINITY OF CHRIST John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God_. WHAT astonishing majesty and dignity are displayed in these brief but co...
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD,— _"In the beginning,_ before the foundation of the world, or the first production of any created being, a glorious Person _existed,_ who may properly be called _the Word...
THE PRE-EXISTENCE OF THE WORD DESCRIBED _Text 1:1-5_ 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things wer...
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...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 1:1-13 In the last chapter we stated, "Each book of the Bible has a prominent and dominant theme which is peculiar to itself. Just as each member in the human bo...
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. As the Fourth Gospel was not written until the other three had become the household words and daily bread of the Chur...
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...
IN THE BEGINNING] not as in Genesis 1:1, 'in the beginning of creation,' but 'in the beginning of eternity,' i.e. from all eternity: cp. John 8:58; John 17:5. WAS THE WORD] i.e. the Word existed. 'The...
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...
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...
(1) IN THE BEGINNING. — The reference to the opening words of the Old Testament is obvious, and is the more striking when we remember that a Jew would constantly speak of and quote from the book of Ge...
CHAPTER 1 THE INCARNATION. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was no...
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...
In the first verse three things are stated regarding the Logos, the subject ὁ λόγος being repeated for impressiveness. Westcott remarks that these three clauses answer to the three great moments of th...
_The Logos described_. The first five verses describe the pre-existence, the nature, the creative power of the Logos, who in the succeeding verses is spoken of as entering the world, becoming man, and...
THE LIGHT FOR THE NEW YEAR'S PATH John 1:1-13 The titles of our Lord are set forth in royal fashion. As speech reveals the hidden thoughts of men, so does our Lord utter the unseen God. God spake and...
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...
In (1) the (a) beginning (b) was (c) the Word, and the Word was (d) with God, and the (e) Word was God. (1) The Son of God is of one and the selfsame eternity or everlastingness, and of one and the s...
In the beginning was the word: [1] or rather, the word was in the beginning. The eternal word, the increated wisdom, the second Person of the blessed Trinity, the only begotten Son of the Father, as h...
JOHN'S GOSPEL You observe, thus far, not a word has been said about John's Gospel. Matthew, Mark, and Luke all wrote historically. Consequently, they go much together, most felicitously corroborating...
[See also the "General Considerations on the Prologue" in the comments of John 1:18.] At John 1:1, John finds in eternity the subject of the history which he is going to relate, the Logos; at John 1:2...
FIRST SECTION: THE LOGOS. 1:1-14. It would be difficult not to recognize in these first verses an allusion to the beginning of Genesis. The first words of the two writings manifestly correspond with e...
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...
CONTENTS John opens his Gospel in this Chapter, with declaring both to the Godhead and Manhood of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Testimony of John the Baptist is here given to the Person and Glory of Chr...
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...
1._In the beginning was the Speech_. In this introduction he asserts the eternal Divinity of Christ, in order to inform us that he is the eternal God, who _was manifested in the flesh_, (1 Timothy 3:1...
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...
Ver. 1. IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD,.... That this is said not of the written word, but of the essential word of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, is clear, from all that is said from hence, to John 1:14...
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Ver. 1. _In the beginning_] Here this heavenly eagle, John the Divine, soars at first out of sight (ο θεολογος κατ εξοχ...
_In the beginning_ Namely, of the creation, (for the evangelist evidently refers to the first word of the book of Genesis, בראשׁית, _bereshith_, rendered by the LXX. εν αρχη, the expression here used,...
IN THE BEGINNING; of the creation. He who was with God in the beginning of all created things, is before all things, and has existed from eternity. Compare chap John 17:5; COLOSSIANS 1:17. THE WORD; a...
THE PROLOGUE OF THE GOSPEL. The introduction:...
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD, AND THE WORD WAS GOD....
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...
1-5 The plainest reason why the Son of God is called the Word, seems to be, that as our words explain our minds to others, so was the Son of God sent in order to reveal his Father's mind to the world...
JOHN CHAPTER 1 1 THESSALONIANS 1:1 The Divinity of Christ. 1 THESSALONIANS 1:6 The mission of John, and end of Christ's coming. 1 THESSALONIANS 1:14
Epistle of Ignatius to the Tarsians How could such a one be a mere man, receiving the beginning of His existence from Mary, and not rather God the Word, and the only-begotten Son? For "in the beginni...
John 1:1 In G1722 beginning G746 was G2258 (G5713) Word G3056 and G2532 Word G3056 was G2258 ...
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...
John 1:1 ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with (face to face with) God, and what God was the Word was.' ‘In the beginning.' This undoubtedly has in mind the words of Genesis 1:1 (‘in t...
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 1:1. IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD. This sublime opening of the Gospel carries our thoughts at once to the no less sublime opening of the Book of Genesis, whose first words the Evangelist certain...
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...
IN THE BEGINNING (εν αρχη). Αρχη is definite, though anarthrous like our at home, in town, and the similar Hebrew _be reshith_ in Genesis 1:1. But Westcott notes that here John carries our thoughts...
WORD (Greek, "logos"); (Aramaic, "Memra," used in the Targums, or Hebrew, paraphrases, for "God"). The Greek term means, (1) a thought or concept; (2) the expression or utterance of that thought. A...
John 1:1 Why is it that, as you turn the page from St. Luke to St. John you seem to pass into another climate nay, I might almost say, into another atmosphere? The answer is at least twofold. It is, f...
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...
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 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...
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...
BEFORE THE WORLD WAS CREATED. The brief time from the Virgin Birth in Bethlehem to the Ascension from the Mount of Olives must be understood in its relationship to the WHOLE of the Son of God. Read wh...
_In the beginning was the Word_ I. THE APOSTLE ASSERTS THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST. 1. His name: the Word. (1) He is the chief subject of Revelation--the Word of promise--the substance of all shadows,...
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...
_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 John 1:1; 1 John 1:2; 1 John 5:20; 1 John 5:7; 1 Timothy 3:16;...
In the beginning was [ε ν α ρ χ η η ν]. With evident allusion to the first word of Genesis. But John elevates the phrase from its reference to a point of time, the beginning of creation, to the time o...
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...
In the beginning — (Referring to Genesis 1:1, and Proverbs 8:23.) When all things began to be made by the Word: in the beginning of heaven and earth, and this whole frame of created beings, the Word e...
Is Jesus God or just a god? PROBLEM: Orthodox Christians believe Jesus is God and often appeal to this passage to prove it. However, Jehovah’s Witnesses translate this verse “and the Word (Christ) wa...
Observe here, 1. The person spoken of, Jesus Christ, under the name of the WORD. IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD. Because God spake to us by him, and makes known his will to us by Christ, as we make kno...