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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. Dear friends, if you and I know our real destiny, and are the servants of God, we are sent that men might, through us, believe in Jesus. John was a special witness; but we ought all to be witnesses to complete the chain of testimony. Every Christian...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He was not that light,.... He was a light; he was the forerunner of the sun of righteousness, the "phosphorus" of the Gospel day; he had great light in him; he knew that the Messiah was ready to come, and declared it; and upon his baptism he knew him personally, and signified him to others: he had great light into the person and work of Christ;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. There was no light from John except what he reflected from his Lord. All the light comes from Jesus. Every man who comes into the world with any light borrows his light from Christ. There is no other...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. If any man has saving light, true light, he gets it through Christ. There is no other light; all other light is but darkness visible. The light in which we see God comes from Jesus.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
That was the true light,.... Christ is that light, that famous and excellent light, the fountain of all light to all creatures; that gave light to the dark earth at first, and spoke light out of darkness; that light of all men in the earth, and of all the angels in heaven, and of all the saints below, and of all the glorified ones above: he is the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He was in the world,.... This is to be understood, not of his incarnation; for the word was denotes past existence in the world, even all the time past from the creation of the world; and the world intends the world in general, as opposed to Judea, and the people of the Jews in the next verse; besides, the incarnation of the word is spoken of in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He was in the world, and the world was made by him and the world knew him not. Oh, what terrible estrangement sin has caused between God and man! What dreadful ignorance sin has created in the human mind! The world was made by Christ, yet “the world knew him not.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. This is a sad verse. He was a stranger in his own house. He was unknown amidst his own handiwork. Men whom he had made, made nothing of him. “The world knew him not;” did not recognize him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. Strange was it that the Creator came to his own earth, and yet he was unknown. Men mistook him, they hated him, they crucified him whom they ought to have entertained with sacred hospitality, and worshipped with holy loyalty.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He came unto his own,.... Not all the world, who are his own by right of creation; for these, his own, are opposed to the world, and distinguished from them; and his coming to them designs some particular favour, which is not vouchsafed to all: nor yet are the elect of God intended; though they are Christ's own, in a very special sense; they are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He came unto his own, and his own received him not. To those who were chosen as “his own” out of all the nations upon the earth, to those to whom he was specially promised of old, to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, — to these Jesus came, yet they “received him not.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He came unto his own, and his own received him not. That favored circle, the Jewish nation, where revelation had been given, even there, there was no place for him. He must be despised and rejected even by his own nation.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: All men are not the sons of God; the doctrine of the universal Fatherhood is utterly untrue. They only become the sons of God who receive Christ, and believe on his name; else are...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But as many as received him,.... This is explained, in the latter part of the text, by believing in his name; for faith is a receiving him as the word, and Son of God, as the Messiah, Saviour, and Redeemer; a receiving grace out of his fulness, and every blessing from him, as a justifying righteousness, pardon of sin, and an inheritance among them...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But — This is a blessed “But.” Though Christ’s own nation, the Jews, as a whole “received him not,” there was “a remnant according to the election of grace,” there were some who received him. “But” — Joh_1:12. As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: How came those persons to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. To receive Christ, a man must be born of God. It is the simplest thing in all the world, one would think, to open the door of the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Which were born not of blood,.... Or bloods, in the plural number. The birth, here spoken of, is regeneration, expressed by a being born again, or from above; by a being quickened by the Spirit and grace of God; by Christ being formed in men; and by a partaking of the divine nature; and by being made new creatures, as all that believe in the name...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. So that those who receive Christ, those who truly believe on Christ, are people who have been born, as others have not been born, by a new birth from heaven, a supernatural birth, so that they are a people set apart by themselves as those who have been...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. There is another birth beside the natural one; never does the birth of the flesh make us Christians. If our ancestry should be a line of saints yet are we born sinners; we must be born again if we are to become saints. If we could trace our pedigree to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the word was made flesh,.... The same word, of whom so many things are said in the preceding verses; and is no other than the Son of God, or second person in the Trinity; for neither the Father, nor the Holy Ghost, were made flesh, as is here said of the word, but the Son only: and "flesh" here signifies, not a part of the body, nor the whole...