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    John · 51 verses

    John 1

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    John is sent to point out the Light, yet twice says he did not know Jesus; Nathanael needs only a fig tree for the conversation to leap to the Son of God and King of Israel.

    The Light enters its own worldvv. 1–18

    Before anyone is baptised, followed, or mildly suspicious of Nazareth, the Word is already with God and is the means by which all things were made. Then comes the extraordinary descent: the Word becomes flesh, lives among people, and is not recognised by the world He made. John appears as a witness, carefully insisting that he is not the Light, while grace and truth arrive through Jesus Christ.

    John knows enough to say he did not knowvv. 19–34

    Priests and Levites arrive from Jerusalem with a tidy set of possibilities: Christ, Elijah, or the Prophet. John rejects all three labels and gives them instead a voice in the wilderness, followed by the rather splendid claim that someone stands among them whom they do not know. The next day, John sees Jesus, and the Spirit settles on Him like a dove; this is the point at which John can testify that Jesus is the Son of God, though he has twice explained that he did not know Him.

    A fig tree, a new name, and heaven openingvv. 35–51

    John points at Jesus again, and two disciples promptly follow Him. Andrew fetches Simon, Jesus gives Simon the new name Peter, and Philip fetches Nathanael. Nathanael begins with a question about Nazareth, but Jesus answers with knowledge of the fig tree; the exchange then accelerates magnificently from local scepticism to “the Son of God” and “the King of Israel,” before Jesus promises sights considerably grander than botanical reconnaissance.

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    1. John 1:1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

    2. John 1:2He was with God in the beginning.

    3. John 1:3Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made.

    4. John 1:4In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.

    5. John 1:5The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

    6. John 1:6There came a man who was sent from God. His name was John.

    7. John 1:7He came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that through him everyone might believe.

    8. John 1:8He himself was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light.

    9. John 1:9The true Light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

    10. John 1:10He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him.

    11. John 1:11He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.

    12. John 1:12But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—

    13. John 1:13children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.

    14. John 1:14The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

    15. John 1:15John testified concerning Him. He cried out, saying, “This is He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’”

    16. John 1:16From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace.

    17. John 1:17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

    18. John 1:18No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.

    19. John 1:19And this was John’s testimony when the Jews of Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him, “Who are you?”

    20. John 1:20He did not refuse to confess, but openly declared, “I am not the Christ.”

    21. John 1:21“Then who are you?” they inquired. “Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.”

    22. John 1:22So they said to him, “Who are you? We need an answer for those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

    23. John 1:23John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet: “I am a voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”

    24. John 1:24Then the Pharisees who had been sent

    25. John 1:25asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

    26. John 1:26“I baptize with water,” John replied, “but among you stands One you do not know.

    27. John 1:27He is the One who comes after me, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”

    28. John 1:28All this happened at Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

    29. John 1:29The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

    30. John 1:30This is He of whom I said, ‘A man who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’

    31. John 1:31I myself did not know Him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that He might be revealed to Israel.”

    32. John 1:32Then John testified, “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove and resting on Him.

    33. John 1:33I myself did not know Him, but the One who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit descend and rest is He who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’

    34. John 1:34I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.”

    35. John 1:35The next day John was there again with two of his disciples.

    36. John 1:36When he saw Jesus walking by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”

    37. John 1:37And when the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.

    38. John 1:38Jesus turned and saw them following. “What do you want?” He asked. They said to Him, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are You staying?”

    39. John 1:39“Come and see,” He replied. So they went and saw where He was staying, and spent that day with Him. It was about the tenth hour.

    40. John 1:40Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard John’s testimony and followed Jesus.

    41. John 1:41He first found his brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated as Christ).

    42. John 1:42Andrew brought him to Jesus, who looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which is translated as Peter).

    43. John 1:43The next day Jesus decided to set out for Galilee. Finding Philip, He told him, “Follow Me.”

    44. John 1:44Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the same town as Andrew and Peter.

    45. John 1:45Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, the One the prophets foretold—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

    46. John 1:46“Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Nathanael asked. “Come and see,” said Philip.

    47. John 1:47When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”

    48. John 1:48“How do You know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus replied, “Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree.”

    49. John 1:49“Rabbi,” Nathanael answered, “You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”

    50. John 1:50Jesus said to him, “Do you believe just because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than these.”

    51. John 1:51Then He declared, “Truly, truly, I tell you, you will all see heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

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    • 1Genesis 1:1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
    • 1John 17:5And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.
    • 1Revelation 19:13He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and His name is The Word of God.
    • 1Colossians 1:17He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
    • 11 John 1:1–2That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life.
    • 1Revelation 22:13I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
    • 12Galatians 3:26You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
    • 1John 1:2He was with God in the beginning.
    • 12Romans 8:14For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
    • 141 John 4:9This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
    • 121 John 3:1Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
    • 1Proverbs 8:22–31The LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old.
    • 3Colossians 1:16–17For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.
    • 1Philippians 2:6Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
    • 1Matthew 1:23“Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).
    • 141 Timothy 3:16By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world, was taken up in glory.

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