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The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:14

The reality of the Incarnation. The apostle explains the saving effects just recorded by the historic fact that "the Word became flesh." I. THE NATURE OF THE INCARNATION . "The Word became flesh." The miraculous conception is implied, though not expressed, in these words. It is the last time that John uses the term "Word" about Christ in his Gospel. Henceforth the term is "Jesus," or "the Lord." The word "flesh" denotes human nature—the entire human person. 1 . It is not... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:14

The inference from the human to the Divine. The parenthesis in this verse is remarkable as written in the first person. There must be a reason for the evangelist's departure from his ordinary practice of writing in the narrative style. It seems that John was so impressed by the solemnity and value of the witness he was bearing, that he was constrained to break his own rule, and. to speak explicitly of what he himself had actually seen, and of what he himself had come firmly to believe.... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:15

(6) The testimony to this fact by the prophetic spirit. The evangelist, in support and vindication of the profound impression produced upon himself and others by the Christ, cites the startling and paradoxical testimony of the Baptist, which in John's own hearing the great forerunner had twice uttered, under very extraordinary circumstances (see verses 26, 30). In the later verses this testimony is put in its proper place. Its repetition deepens the impression which the narrative gives of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:15

The testimony of John the Baptist. I. THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE MESSIAH . "This was he of whom I spake." Thus he was the true forerunner of Christ. II. THE TRUE POSITION OF THE MESSIAH IN RELATION TO THE BAPTIST . "He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me." 1 . There is here a recognition of the pre-existence of Christ, as well as of his higher dignity. ( John 3:33 .) 2 . It is a testimony that bespeaks the... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:16

There can be little doubt that the fifteenth verse is a parenthetical clause, answering to the sixth and seventh verses, and standing to John 1:14 very much in the same kind of relation that John 1:6 , John 1:7 do to John 1:1-5 . There is a further reason; the verses which follow are clearly not, as Lange suggests, the continuance of the Baptist's μαρτυρία , but the language of the evangelist, and a detail of his personal experience. The entire context would entirely forbid our... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:16-18

(7) The experience of the Writer. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:16-18

Christ the Fulness of grace and truth. We next have the testimony of the entire Church. I. THE FULNESS OF CHRIST REALIZED IN THE CHURCH . "And of his fulness have all we received, even grace for grace." 1 . The fulness of Christ. It is the plenitude of Divine attributes and graces. 2 . The wide extent of its reception. "We have all received." There may be an allusion to the Gnostic idea that only a certain spiritual class would be received into this fulness.... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:17

The χάριν ἀντὶ χάριτος is sustained by calling attention to the contrast between the two methods of Divine communication. Because the Law was given through Moses; "Law," which in Paul's writings had been even looked at by itself as an "antithesis to grace" ( Romans 4:15 ; Romans 6:14 ; Romans 7:3 ; Romans 10:4 ; Galatians 3:10 ; Galatians 4:4 ). The Law principle of approach to God fails through the weakness of the flesh. The will is too far enslaved for it to yield... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:17

Moses and Christ. Let us proceed at once to particular instances of the Law given through Moses, and of the grace and truth coming through Jesus Christ. Thus we shall better see how Moses is brought into connection with Christ, and Law into connection with grace and truth. Look, then, at Exodus 20:1-26 , where the great principles of the Law given through Moses are stated. I. CONSIDER , THE BASIS OF JEHOVAH 'S CLAIM . "I am Jehovah thy God, which brought thee out of the... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:18

No one hath ever yet seen God. Many visions, theophanies, appearances, angelic splendours, in the desert, on the mountain, in the temple, by the river of Chebar, had been granted to the prophets of the Lord; but they have all fallen short of the direct intuition of God as God. Abraham, Israel, Moses, Manoah, David, Isaiah, Ezekiel, saw visions, local manifestations, anticipations of the Incarnation; but the apostle here takes the Lord's own word for it ( John 5:37 ), and he elsewhere... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:14

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:14

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:15

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:15

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:16

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:16-18

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:16-18

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:17

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:17

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:18

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