John 1:1-6 BSB

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:1

In 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 hardly be doubted; but the resemblance immediately ceases or is transformed into an antithesis; for whereas the Mosaic narrative proceeds to indicate the beginning of the creation and of time by saying, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," this passage... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:1-2

Prologue of the Gospel. The prologue is in harmony with the design of a biographic history which is to set forth Jesus Christ as the Son of God. The Fourth Gospel is thus a distinct advance, dogmatically, upon the other Gospels, for Matthew exhibits him in his Messianic royalty; Mark, as the Son of man and the Servant of God; Luke, as the Son of man and Saviour of the race of man, without distinction of Jew or Gentile. The Apostle John exhibits him in the glorious activity of his Divine... 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 1:2

The same Logos whom the writer has just affirmed to have been God himself, was , though it might seem at first reading to be incompatible with the first or third clause of the first verse, nevertheless in the beginning with God —"in the beginning," and therefore, as we have seen, eternally in relation with God. The previous statements are thus stringently enforced, and, notwithstanding their tendency to diverge, are once more bound into a new, unified, and emphatic utterance. Thus the ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:3

All things ( πάντα , not τὰ πάντα ) taken one by one, rather than all things regarded in their totality—"all things," i.e. all beings and elements of things visible or invisible, in heaven, earth, and under the earth (see Colossians 1:16 , etc.), came into being through him, through the Logos, who was in the beginning with God, and was God. The Logos is the organ or instrument by which everything, one by one, was made. Two other words are used in the New Testament to denote... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:3-4

(2) The creation of all things through the Logos, as the instrument of the eternal counsel and activity of God. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:3-5

Jesus Christ in relation to creation. The apostle next shows the relation between the finite and the infinite, the Divine and the human. I. THE WORD MADE FLESH . "All things were made by him." Therefore he must be God. "He that built all things is God" ( Hebrews 3:4 ). This creation has a double aspect. 1 . He made the worlds, tie made matter. 2 . He made man, who is the crown of creation; for "in him was life." II. THE WORD IS THE LIFE OF THE WORLD... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:4

(a) The Life, and therefore inclusive of the fact that the Logos always has been and now is (b) the Light of men. In him was £ life . "Life" in all its fulness of meaning—that grand addition to things which confers upon them all their significance for men. There is one impassable chasm which neither history, nor science, nor philosophy can span, viz. that between nothing and something. The evangelist has found the only possible method of facing it—by the conception of One who... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:4

The life that gives light to men. "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth:" so runs the first verse of the Book of Genesis. "In the beginning was the Word:" so runs the first verse in the Gospel of John. This resemblance prompts us to look for other resemblances. "God said, Let there be light: and there was light:" so runs the third verse of the Book of Genesis. And then we perceive that John, correspondingly, would lead his readers to think of the greatest of all lights... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:1

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:1-2

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:1-18

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:1-51

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:2

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:3

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:3-4

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:3-5

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:4

The Pulpit Commentary - John 1:4

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