Category: The Gospel of John
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The reason they called it a family tree is that it has branches!
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No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. – John 1:18 This final verse of the opening to the Gospel according to John is a true gem. We have record of people like Moses seeing God in the Old…
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And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by…
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In my two previous posts, we learned something very important about the power of Jesus and the power of sin. We learned that Jesus is the source of all life for creation and mankind in particular. However, we also learned that sin has such a detrimental effect on man that he cannot even recognize God…
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And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. – John 1:5 Satan lies! He lies every time he speaks. He lies today, and in particular, he lied to Adam and Eve in the Garden. He told them that they would become like gods knowing good and evil. What he did not…
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John 1:1-18 The next major theme that we find in these opening verses of John’s gospel teaches us that Jesus is the source of all things and the natural life in man. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. – John 1:3 All creation owes…
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John 1:1-18 In the first eighteen verses of John 1, we are told about two cousins. One is called the Word or the Light. The other is called the witness of the Light, and his name is John. This article will cover what these few verses say about this man John. This is a different…
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In the opening verses of the Gospel according to John, we learn about two cousins. One was the Word or Light. This is Jesus. The other was witness to that Light. This is John the Baptist. The first three verses present a lot of doctrine about the eternal nature of Jesus and the Trinity. In…
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John desires that his readers have a full understanding of the deity of Christ so that they may live a life of liberty in Jesus.