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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ver. 1. In the beginning was the word,.... That this is said not of the written word, but of the essential word of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, is clear, from all that is said from hence, to John 1:14 as that this word was in the beginning, was with God, and is God; from the creation of all things being ascribed to him, and his being said to be the...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
The Divinity of Christ. 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the beginning was the Word, — Christ the Word has existed from all eternity. He is the eternal Son of the eternal Father; he is really what Melchisedec was metaphorically, “having neither beginning of days, nor end of life.” “In the beginning was the Word,” — Joh_1:1. And the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Word was as truly God as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the beginning was the Word. The divine Logos, whom we know as the Christ of God. “In the beginning was the Word.” The first words of this gospel remind us of the first words of the Old Testament: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” Even then “the Word” was; he existed before all time, even from everlasting. Joh_1:1. And the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. We cannot describe the Deity of Christ in clearer language than John uses. He was with God; he was God; he did the works of God, for he was the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The same was in the beginning with God. This is a repetition of what is before said, and is made to show the importance of the truths before delivered; namely, the eternity of Christ, his distinct personality, and proper deity; and that the phrase, in the beginning, is to be joined to each of the above sentences; and so proves, not only his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. The light of Christ shone many times amid the darkness that enshrouded the world before his coming to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The same was in the beginning with God. As we have been singing — “Ere sin was born, or Satan fell;” ere there was a creation that could fall, “the same was in the beginning with God.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
All things were made by him,.... Which is a proof at once of all that is said before; as that he was in the beginning; and that he was with God the Father in the beginning; and that he was God; otherwise all things could not have been made by him, had either of these been untrue: which is to be understood, not of the new creation; for this would...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. He that hung upon the cross was the Maker of all worlds. He that came as an infant, for our sake, was the Infinite. How low he stooped! How high he must have been that he could stoop so low!
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In him was life,.... The Persic version reads in the plural number, "lives". There was life in the word with respect to himself; a divine life, the same with the life of the Father and of the Spirit; and is in him, not by gift, nor by derivation or communication; but originally, and independently, and from all eternity: indeed he lived before his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In him was life; Essentially, Eternally. Joh_1:4. And the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. It never has done so; it never will. You may sometimes call the darkness, the ignorance of men, or the sin of men. If you like, you may call it the wisdom of men, and the righteousness of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. Christ is still not understood, Jesus is still not known. How should darkness understand light? It opposes light, it has to flee before light, but it does not, it cannot understand light. O God, work a miracle in our dark...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the light shineth in darkness,.... Which, through sin, came upon the minds of men; who are naturally in the dark about the nature and perfections of God; about sin, and the consequences of it; about Christ, and salvation by him; about the Spirit of God, and his work upon the soul; and about the Scriptures of truth, and the doctrines of the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
There was a man sent from God,.... John the Baptist: he was not the Logos, or word; nor was he an angel, but a man; yet an extraordinary one, in his conception of a barren woman, and in being born when both parents were stricken in years; and whilst he was in the womb, he leaped for joy at the salutation of Mary; and as soon as born was filled...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. What a descent it is from “The Word of God” to the “man sent from God, whose name was John”! Jesus himself said concerning John, “Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist;” yet, from the greatest of prophets, what a climb it is to get up to Jesus...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. How very different is the style of this verse from the one that precedes it! How grand, how sublime, are the Evangelist’s words when he speaks of Jesus! How truly human he becomes, how he dips his pen in ordinary ink, when he writes: “There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.” Yet that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. That is our business, too. We who are ministers sent from God bear witness of the Light, that all men through him may believe. Oh, how often we go home, and cry, “Who hath believed our report?” We...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The same came for a witness,.... The end of his being sent, and the design of his coming were, to bear witness of the light: by which is meant, not the light of nature, or reason; nor the light of the Gospel: but Christ himself, the author of light, natural, spiritual, and eternal. This was one of the names of the Messiah with the Jews; of whom...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. That John could not do, he could only bear witness to Christ, the true Light, who alone is able to...