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John 1
John 1 — Overview
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John 1 — OverviewJohn 1 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThe scope and design of this chapter is to confirm our faith in Christ
as the eternal Son of God, and the true Messiah and Saviour of the
world, that we may be brought to receive him, and rely upon him, as our…John 1 — OverviewJohn 1 · Little Bible — for children and parentsJohn tells us that Jesus — called 'the Word' — was with God before anything was made and is God Himself. Jesus came into the world as a real person, but many did not recognize Him. John the Baptist pointed to Jesus as…John 1 — OverviewJohn 1 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThe author of this Gospel is John, the son of Zebedee and Salome, the brother of James the greater; he outlived the rest of the disciples, and wrote this Gospel after the other evangelists; and in it many things are…John 1:1-5John 1:1-5 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleAugustine says (de Civitate Dei, lib. 10, cap. 29) that his friend
Simplicius told him he had heard a Platonic philosopher say that these
first verses of St. John's gospel were worthy to be written in letters…John 1:1John 1:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryIn the beginning was the Word. From early times expositors have perceived that the evangelist essayed here a comparison with the ἐν ἀρχῇ ("in the beginning") of the first verse of the Book of Genesis. This can…John 1:1-18John 1:1-18 · The Pulpit Commentary1. The hypothesis framed by the evangelist to account for the series of facts which he is about to narrate is seen especially in John 1:14; but before asserting this great fact that the Word was made flesh, he proceeds…
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