John 1:9. "That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." There is not now, ever was, nor will be, any man in the world enlightened but by Jesus Christ. Every man that cometh into the world, that ever is enlightened, is enlightened by Him; or hereby is meant that this... [ Continue Reading ]
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 grace _answerable_ to grace. The word a?t?, translated _for,_ signifies so. Christ has many gifts from t... [ Continue Reading ]
John 1:18. "No man hath seen God at any time; the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him." God under the Old Testament gave the images of things the substance and reality of which He gave in the New; and one instance of this was, that Christ so often under the O... [ Continue Reading ]
John 1:31. "And I knew him not; but that he should be made manifest to Israel," etc. This may seem strange that John did not know Jesus, seeing the families were so related; Elisabeth, his mother, being cousin to the Virgin Mary, and they were intimately acquainted one with another, and at the very... [ Continue Reading ]