The Strand Study Bible

JOHN 1:14

JOHN 1:43

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14 And the 1 WORD was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. The witness of John the Baptist 15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, 2 He that cometh after me is preferred before me: 3 for he was before me. 16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. 18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, 4 which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. 19 And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? 20 And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the 5 CHRIST . 21 And they asked him, What then? Art thou 6 Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that 7 PROPHET ? And he answered, No. 22 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? 23 He said, 8 I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the 9 LORD , as said the prophet Esaias. 24 And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. 25 And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? 26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not; 27 He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose. 28 These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing. 29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the 10 LAMB OF GOD , 11 which taketh away the sin of the world. P

30 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: 12 for he was before me. 31 And I knewhimnot: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water. 32 And John bare record, saying, I saw the 13 Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, 14 and it abode upon him. PF 33 And I knew HIM not: but HE that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon WHOM thou shalt see the SPIRIT descending, and remaining on HIM , the same is HE which baptizethwith the 15 HOLYGHOST . P 34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the 5 SON OF GOD . CHRIST speaks with Peter and Andrew 35 Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples; 36 And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the LAMB OF GOD ! 37 And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. 38 Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye ? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou? 39 He saith unto them, Come and see . They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the 16 tenth hour. 40 One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. 41 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the 5 MESSIAS , which is, being interpreted, the CHRIST . 42 And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone. CHRIST’S first disciples - (Philip and Nathanael) 43 The day following Jesus would go forth

1. or, “Christ; God” - I Tim 3:16 & I Jn 4:2-3 & II Jn 7 2. Mt 3:11 3. Jn 1:1,30 & 17:5 & Colo 1:17 & Mic 5:2 4. Note - Jesus ( which is in the bosom of the Father ) came to earth in human form to show us the heart of God. 5. or, “Messiah” - Dan 9:25-26 6. Mal 4:5-6 7. Deut 18:15,18- 19 & Acts 3:22-24 8. Quoted from the OT - Isa 40:3 9. “ Jehovah ” Note - According to Isaiah 40:3, Christ is Jehovah . 10. Gen 4:4 & Exo 12:3 & Isa 53:7 Note - John clearly identified CHRIST as the one and only LAMB OF GOD ( Gen 22:8a ). 11. Fulfilled - Jn 19:28,30 (Christ’s Redemption) 12. Jn 1:15 & 17:5 & Mic 5:2 & & Colo 1:17 13. Mt 3:13-17 & Acts 10:37-38 14. See – Isa 11:2 & 42:1 & 61:1 15. Fulfilled - Acts 2:4 (Holy Spirit Power) 16. or, “10 pm”

1:14 CHRIST was unique in that He was 100% God ( WORD - Jn 1:1) and 100% man ( flesh – I Tim 3:16). He possessed all the attributes of deity and all the frailties of humanity (apart from sin). No wonder Jesus could claim deity on the one hand (Jn 5:17- 18 & 8:56-59 & 10:30-33) and humanity on the other ( Jn 14:28 & 20:17 b and Phil 2:7 a,b ) . 1:16 The original Greek reads, “ NDL FDULQ DQτL FDULτο9 ” ( and grace upon grace ), that is, grace piled upon itself –a fullness indeed. The OT saints were certainly aware of grace ( Gen 6:8 and Gen 19:19). Grace, compared with the brightness of grace that appeared when Christ appeared in human form to take away our sin at Calvary (Titus 2:11), was but a flicker to them (vs 17). Which means, the promise of grace is not as “complete” as the Person of grace. 1:29 This phrase ( taketh away ) is a direct reference to the scapegoat (the second goat - Lev16:5 -10), that took our sins away to the “Land of God’s Forgetting.”