CHAPTER I.
PRELIMINARY NOTE.
The reader who opens the Gospel of John at once notices. marked
difference between it and the three preceding gospels. They begin with
the times of Jesus Christ upon the...
ἸΩΆΝΗΝ is preferred by the best recent editors to
Ἰωάννην. The title of the Gospel is found in very different
forms in ancient authorities, the earliest being the simplest;
κατὰ Ἰωάννην or -άνην (אBD)...
THE WORD BECAME FLESH JOHN ONE
The author of the gospel of John is the Holy Spirit of God. The Holy
Spirit used that "disciple whom Jesus loved" to write this gospel.
This disciple was the one who lea...
CHAPTER ONE
The first eighteen verses of the Gospel according to John contain an
abridgment of what John intends to record in detail in the body of his
Gospel. First he describes the pre-existent nat...
CHAPTER 1.
_ The prologue_.
The first eighteen verses contain a preface, or as it is usually
called, the prologue to the Gospel. In this prologue the writer
identifies the person, Jesus Christ, whom...
THE TITLE OF THE GOSPEL.
This title appears in the MSS. in different forms. The simplest is
that which we find in א B D: κατὰ᾿Ιωάννην (_according
to John_). The majority of the Mjj. and א (at the end...
PART I
_THE PROLOGUE_
CHAPTER John 1:1
THE ETERNAL NATURE AND INCARNATION OF THE WORD
1. The Logos is divine, pre-existent, eternal, and appears in His
relation to God (John 1:2); to creation and p...