John 1:15-51

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The Gospel Of John Chapter 1:15-51

I. Outline: I. The Testimony Of John The Baptist: 1:15, 19-34 II. What Jesus Brought/Revealed: 1:16-18 III. His First Disciples: 1:35-42 IV. Philip And Nathanael: 1:43-51

II. Commentary: John 1:15 ‘John bore witness of Him, and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has a higher rank than I , for He existed before me.’”’ ‘John bore witness of Him’-Again, it is made clear that John is not the Light. Rather, John the Baptist agrees with the testimony written in the Gospel of John, that Jesus is the Messiah, and that Jesus is Eternal. Jesus was infinite, John was finite. Repeatedly, John preached that he was inferior to Jesus (Matthew 3:11; Mark 1:7; John 3:28).

‘He who comes after me has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me.’-John the Baptist was actually some six months physically older than Jesus (Luke 1:36). In fact, John had even started preaching before Jesus did. This is a clear reference to the pre-existence of Jesus. John knew the true nature of Jesus, that He is God!

John 1:16 ‘For of His fulness we have all received, and grace upon grace.’ ‘His’-Jesus. ‘fulness’-‘abundance’ (Thayer p. 518); ‘sum total, fulness, even super-abundance’ (Arndt p. 672). ‘The word for “fulness” is pleroma and is the same word Paul uses in Colossians 2:9. There Paul says that in Christ dwells all the fulness…of the Godhead..in a bodily

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