John 1:18 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - John 1:15-18

In these verses, I. The evangelist begins again to give us John Baptist's testimony concerning Christ, John 1:15. He had said (John 1:8) that he came for a witness; now here he tells us that he did accordingly bear witness. Here, Observe, 1. How he expressed his testimony: He cried, according to the prediction that he should be the voice of one crying. The Old-Testament prophets cried aloud, to show people their sins; this New-Testament prophet cried aloud, to show people their Saviour. This... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 1:1-18

1:1-18 When the world had its beginning, the Word was already there; and the Word was with God; and the Word was God. This Word was in the beginning with God. He was the agent through whom all things were made; and there is not a single thing which exists in this world which came into being without him. In him was life and the life was the light of men; and the light shines in the darkness, because the darkness has never been able to conquer it. There emerged a man sent from God whose name... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 1:18

No man hath seen God at any time ,.... That is, God the Father, whose voice was never heard, nor his shape seen by angels or men; for though Jacob, Moses, the elders of Israel, Manoah, and his wife, are said to see God, and Job expected to see him with his bodily eyes, and the saints will see him as he is, in which will lie their great happiness; yet all seems to be understood of the second person, who frequently appeared to the Old Testament saints, in an human form, and will be seen by the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 1:18

No man hath seen God at any time - Moses and others heard his voice, and saw the cloud and the fire, which were the symbols of his presence; but such a manifestation of God as had now taken place, in the person of Jesus Christ, had never before been exhibited to the world. It is likely that the word seen, here, is put for known, as in John 3:32 ; 1 John 3:2 , 1 John 3:6 , and 3 John 1:11 ; and this sense the latter clause of the verse seems to require: - No man, how highly soever... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - John 1:18

Verse 18 18.No man hath ever seen God. Most appropriately is this added to confirm the preceding statement; for the knowledge of God is the door by which we enter into the enjoyment of all blessings; and as it is by Christ alone that God makes himself known to us, hence too it follows that we ought to seek all things from Christ. This order of doctrine ought to be carefully observed. No remark appears to be more common than this, that each of us receives, according to the measure of his faith,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:1-18

1. 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 to show read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:1-51

The phrase, "according to," has been thought by some to suggest a type of doctrine or teaching with which the document might be supposed to harmonize, and therefore to set aside the idea of personal authenticity by its very form. This interpretation, seeing it applies to Mark and Luke as well as to John and Matthew, would lose its meaning; for Mark and Luke, by numerous traditionary notices, have been continuously credited, not with having personally set any special type of doctrine before... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:16-18

(7) The experience of the Writer. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - John 1:15-18

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 1:1-18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 1:18

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 1:18

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - John 1:18

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:1-18

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:1-51

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:16-18

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:16-18

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:18

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