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02900
 # Lu 24:53
    \\Were continually in the temple.\\ Worshipping and teaching.
 See
 # Ac 2:46
 Verse 53 is a link between Luke's Gospel and his Acts of the
 Apostles.
 (PNT 321)
02901
 # Joh 1:1-3
  SUMMARY OF JOHN 1
  \\The Beginning of Christ's Ministry\\

  The Word Made Flesh
  The Witness of John
  John's Disciples Pointed to Christ
  The Lord Calls His First Disciples
  An Israelite Indeed

    \\In the beginning was the Word\\, etc. The first fourteen
 verses are introductory. In order to set at rest all controversy
 the Divine nature of Jesus, John glances, in the first three
 verses, back to the beginning, recorded in Genesis, and affirms:
 (1) That he who was afterwards manifest as the Christ existed
     before creation began;
 (2) that he was present with God;
 (3) that he was divine;
 (4) that he was the Word;
 (5) that by or through him were all things made that were made
     (v. 3).
 The first chapter of Genesis helps us to understand its meaning.
 God said, "Let there be light." "Let there be a firmament," "Let
 the earth bring forth," etc., and it was done. God exhibits his
 creative power through the Word, and manifests his will through
 the Word. There are mysteries belonging to the divine nature and
 to the relation between the Son and the Father that we have to
 wait for eternity to solve. They are too deep for human
 solution, but this is clear: that God creates and speaks to man
 through the Word. As we clothe our thoughts in words, so God
 reveals his will by the Word, and when the Word is clothed in
 flesh, as the Teacher of men, we recognize it as Jesus Christ.
 (PNT 324)

 See topic Johnson's Introduction to John                    9155
02904
 # Joh 1:4
    \\In him was life.\\ He had life in himself, and hence is a
 fountain from whence life flows to man. Death could not hold
 him, because in him is life, and he became "the Resurrection and
 the Life" for us.
 # 11:25
    \\The life was the light of men.\\ The life that Christ
 bestows enlightens men. He is the Light of the World. His light
 chases away the darkness of the earth, though, when John wrote,
 the darkness did not receive it. Men, in darkness, had eyes and
 saw not. All history demonstrates that Christ is the Light of
 the World; every redeemed soul recognizes the fact.
 (PNT 324)
02905
 # Joh 1:5
    \\the darkness comprehended it not.\\ or "the darkness has
 not overcome it." (RSV) "not overpowered it." (Weymouth)  It is
 the nature of light to dispel darkness, but darkness cannot
 dispel light.  Therefore light will have dominion over darkness
 wherever the light shines.
 # 1Jo 2:8,14 5:4
02906
 # Joh 1:6
    \\There was a man sent from God.\\ The writer now speaks of a
 witness to the Light, John, a man sent from God. He was called
 to his work from his mother's womb.
 (PNT 324)
02907
 # Joh 1:7
    \\The same came for a witness, to bear testimony of the
 \\Light.\\ John came, not so much as a reformer, as a witness.
 His work, as declared by Malachi, was to be a messenger to go
 before the Lord.
 # Mal 3:1
 In all his preaching he testified of Christ. He pointed his own
 disciples to Jesus.
 (PNT 324-325)
02908
 # Joh 1:8
    \\He was not that Light, but [was sent] to bear testimony.\\
 An early heretical sect held that John the Baptist was the
 Messiah. The apostle is explicit, in order to correct this
 error.
 (PNT 325)
02909
 # Joh 1:9
    \\[That] was the true Light, which lighteth every man that
 \\cometh into the world.\\ "There was the true light, [even the
 light] which lighteth every man, coming into the world" (ASV).
 Grammatically, both in the Greek and the English, "coming" may
 belong to the "light," or "every" man. We believe that it should
 agree with "light." That was the true or real Light who, when he
 comes into the world, enlightens every man. Jesus says, "I am
 come a light into the world."
 # 12:46
 (PNT 325)
02910
 # Joh 1:10
    The tenth verse declares:
 (1) That he \\was\\ in the world,
 (2) the world was made by him,
 (3) it did not recognize him.
 The \\world\\ is humanity in general, which \\knew\\ him not.
 (PNT 325)
02911
 # Joh 1:11
    The eleventh verse states
 (1) that he \\came\\, personally, to his own. He took upon
     himself a fleshly form and came to the race to which he was
     united by fleshly ties;
 (2) his own received him not.
 \\His own\\ is the Jewish nation, who \\received\\ him not.
 (PNT 325)
02912
 # Joh 1:12
    \\But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become\\
 \\the sons of God.\\ To such as receive him in every age he gives the
 power, right, and privilege to become the children of God by
 adoption.  "The Son of God became a Son of man, that the sons and
 daughters of men might become the sons and daughters of God
 Almighty." --Matthew Henry
    \\[Even] to them that believe on his name.\\ To receive Christ,
 and to believe in his name, are the same thing.  Believers are
 already the sons of God,
 # Gal 3:26
 though it doth not yet appear what they shall be in the adoption.
     --Matthew Poole
 (PL)
02913
 # Joh 1:13
    \\Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the
 \\flesh.\\ The Jews prided themselves on being Abraham's
 children, and trusted in their blood for salvation. To be a son
 of God is not a fleshly birth at all, but the spirit of the
 subject is \\born of God.\\ The Saviour explains the birth more
 particularly, in
 # 3:1-8
 (PNT 325)
02914
 # Joh 1:14
    \\And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.\\ The Word
 assumed a human form and became incarnate as the child of Mary.
 (PNT 325)
    \\We beheld his glory.\\ His Divine glory. See
 # 9:32 Joh 2:11
 (PNT 325)
02915
 # Joh 1:15
    \\John testified concerning him.\\ At the time of Christ's
 baptism when the Spirit descended. See
 # 1:33
 (PNT 325)
02916
 # Joh 1:16
    \\Of his fulness.\\ Of grace and truth. See
 # 1:14
 His grace and truth hath blessed "us" (the saints) all.
    \\Grace for grace.\\ Grace (favour) has been added to grace;
 one blessing piled upon another.
 (PNT 325)
02917
 # Joh 1:17
    \\The law was given by Moses.\\ It was not a system of grace,
 nor could it make men perfect; in contrast with it the system of
 "grace and truth" was given by Jesus Christ.
 # 1:14
 (PNT 325)
02918
 # Joh 1:18
    \\No man hath seen God,\\ with bodily eyes, but he was
 manifested as the Word, and at last the "only begotten Son hath
 declared him." See
 # 14:9 10:38
 (PNT 326)
02919
 # Joh 1:19
    \\This is the testimony of John.\\ The writer now plunges at
 once into his history. He passes by the childhood of the Lord,
 John's ministry, and comes at once to the time when Jesus,
 thirty years old, is acknowledged by the Father as the Son of
 God.
    \\When the Jews sent priests and Levites.\\ The Jewish
 rulers, the Sanhedrin, the court or parliament of seventy-one
 members who ruled Israel. The delegation sent to John was
 official. His preaching in the wilderness of Jordan had stirred
 the whole land, and they were sent to ascertain his character.
 Matthew, Mark, and Luke use the term "Jews" very seldom [16
 times], John often [70 times], a proof that he wrote far away
 from Palestine and for Gentiles.
 Johnson TPNT 326)
02920
 # Joh 1:20-21
    \\He confessed\\, etc. Some conjectured that John was the
 expected Christ; others that he was Elijah who was first to
 come; others that he was "that prophet," the one predicted by
 Moses; but he declared that he was none of these.
 # Mal 4:5 De 18:15
 (PNT 326)
02922
 # Joh 1:22-23
    \\Who art thou?\\ When the priests and Levites insisted that
 John should declare who he was, he quoted Isaiah, and said he
 was
    \\The voice of one crying in the wilderness.\\ See
 # Isa 40:3
 See note on "Mt 3:3"
 His work was preparation for the Lord.
 (PNT 326)
02924
 # Joh 1:24
    \\Were of the Pharisees.\\
    See note on "Mt 3:7"
 (PNT 326)
02925
 # Joh 1:25
    \\Why baptizest thou then?\\ If he were Christ, or Elijah,
 or "that prophet," they could understand why he should establish
 a new religious rite, but if none of these, why should he do so?
 Their perplexity shows that the baptismal rite was new to them.
    There is no proof that Jewish proselyte baptism of Gentile
 converts existed at this period, save the assertion of the
 Talmud, written two or three centuries after this. Josephus, who
 wrote in the time of the apostles, is silent about it.
 (PNT 326)
02926
 # Joh 1:26-27
    \\I baptize with water.\\
    See note on "Mt 3:11"
 (PNT 326)
02928
 # Joh 1:28
    \\These things were done in Bethabara.\\ The ASV says "in
 Bethany," a village whose site is now unknown, on the east bank
 of the Jordan. Bethabara means "the house of the ford."
 (PNT 327)
02929
 # Joh 1:29
    \\The next day John seeth Jesus.\\ Here Jesus first appears,
 in person, in John's account, who omits all the details given by
 Matthew and Luke of his earlier life. He was now thirty years
 old, and came from Galilee to Jordan to be baptized of John.
 This interview was after the baptism,
 # 1:33
 and probably after the Temptation.
    \\Behold the Lamb of God.\\ Innocent like the lamb, to be
 offered as a lamb, "led as a lamb to the slaughter."
 # Isa 53:7
 The lamb was commonly used as a sin offering,
 # Le 4:32
 and when John points to Jesus as \\the\\ Lamb of God he can only
 mean that God had provided him as a sacrificial offering.
    \\The sin of the world.\\ Not of Jews only, but of Gentiles.
 John points to Jesus as the world's Saviour.
 (PNT 327)
02930
 # Joh 1:30
    \\This is he of whom I said.\\ See
 # 1:27
    \\He was before me.\\ Existed before I was born.
 (PNT 327)
02931
 # Joh 1:31
    \\I knew him not.\\ Knew not that God had chosen him to be
 the Christ. He knew, however, that he should be manifested in
 some way through his baptism.
 (PNT 327)
02932
 # Joh 1:32-34
    \\I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove.\\
    See note on "Mt 3:16"
 It was revealed to John that the Christ would thus be revealed.
 Indeed it was the anointing of the Spirit that made Jesus the
 Anointed, the Christ.
 (PNT 327)
02935
 # Joh 1:35
    \\Again the next day after.\\ In John, the account is given
 of the visit of the priests and Levites, sent by the Sanhedrin
 to John. "The next day" after this, John sees Jesus and points
 him out as the Lamb of God, giving a discourse of which we have
 a synopsis.
 # 1:19-34
 On the "next day" after this, the third day after the deputation
 of the Sanhedrin, and the second after the return of Jesus from
 the wilderness,
    \\John stood, and two of his disciples.\\ One of these two
 was Andrew;
 # 1:40
 the other, we have reason to believe, was John, the apostle.
 (PNT 327)
02936
 # Joh 1:36
    \\Behold the Lamb of God!\\ On the preceding day John had
 recognized Jesus in a public discourse as "the Lamb of God that
 taketh away the sins of the world." Now he personally points the
 disciples to him.
 (PNT 327)
02938
 # Joh 1:38
    \\Rabbi.\\ A term meaning teacher, or master.
    \\Where dwellest thou?\\ These disciples had followed at the
 bidding of John. Their question implies a desire to be in the
 company of Jesus.
 (PNT 328)
02939
 # Joh 1:39
    \\It was about the tenth hour.\\ Counting from six o'clock,
 the first hour among the Jews, the tenth hour would be four p.m.
 (PNT 328)
02940
 # Joh 1:40
    \\One of the two . . . was Andrew.\\ Afterwards an apostle.
 He has the honour of being one of the first two disciples of
 Jesus.
 (PNT 328)
02941
 # Joh 1:41
    \\Findeth his own brother Simon.\\ Simon Peter. In true
 missionary spirit Andrew at once and first sought his own
 brother.
    \\We have found the Messiah.\\ The Christ promised by the
 prophets. "Messiah" is the Hebrew word meaning the same as
 Christ.
 (PNT 328)
02942
 # Joh 1:42
    \\Thou shalt be called Cephas.\\ A Hebrew word meaning stone.
 Peter is the Greek form.
 (PNT 328)
02943
 # Joh 1:43
    \\Findeth Philip, and saith to him, Follow me.\\ This is the
 first recorded instance of the Saviour calling a disciple to
 follow him. Philip, it must be borne in mind, is not Philip,
 "one of the seven," but "one of the Twelve," a citizen of
 Bethsaida of Galilee, and a fellow-townsman of Andrew and Peter.
 (PNT 328)
02945
 # Joh 1:45
    \\Philip findeth Nathanael.\\ As we learn from John,
 Nathanael was a Galilean, his home being at "Cana of Galilee."
 # 21:2
 His name only occurs in these two places. He is supposed to have
 been one of the Twelve, the same one mentioned in the other
 Gospels as Bartholomew, which means "son of Tolmai." The use of
 the name in John favours this hypothesis.
 # 21:2
    \\We have found him, described by Moses in the law.\\ There
 was only one to whom this could refer, "The prophet like unto
 Moses," the Messiah;
 # De 34:10 Ac 3:22 7:37
 and when Philip names Jesus of Nazareth, Nathanael is at once
 sceptical whether the Messiah could come out of Nazareth, an
 insignificant and despised place.
 (PNT 328)
02946
 # Joh 1:46
    \\Come and see.\\ That is the best answer to the septic.
 Bring him to Christ, let him consider him, and what he has done
 for mankind. The strongest proof that Jesus is the Christ is
 Jesus himself.
 (PNT 328)
02948
 # Joh 1:48
    \\How knowest thou me?\\ Nathanael, who had never met Jesus
 before, was surprised to hear himself spoken of as one known.
    \\When thou wast under the fig tree.\\ There was something
 about this answer that filled Nathanael with astonishment. Under
 the shade and shelter of the fig tree he had some rare
 experience that is not recorded, and that he supposed unknown to
 man. That Jesus knew of it and read his soul startled him and
 dissipated his unbelief.
 (PNT 329)
02949
 # Joh 1:49
    \\Thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.\\
 Philip had said, "Jesus, the son of Joseph," as he supposed,
 # 1:45
 but Nathanael, convinced, declared him the Son of God. This is
 the first confession of the divinity of Jesus.
 (PNT 329)