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the beginning 1, 2. In the beginning of the world, before all was the Word, time, before any thing was created, the Son of God and the Word was had a subsistence, and that subsistence with his FaWord was God. ther, of whom he was begotten from all eternity, and 2 The same was in was himself eternal God, and being by his Father in the beginning with his eternal purpose designed to be the Messias, who was among the Jews known by the title of the Word of God, (see note [b] Luke i.) he is here fitly expressed by that title, the Word.

God.

3 All things were 3. This eternal Word of God I mean by which all made by him; and things were at first created.

any thing made that

was made.

without him was not 4. He brought with him that doctrine which is worthily called life, ch. vi. 63, and xii. 50, because it 4 In him was life; leads to holy life here, such as God will be sure to and the life was the accept of through Christ and to reward eternally, light of men. (whereas the law was the bringing in of death,) see ch. x. 10, and this vivifical doctrine was the means designed by God to lead and enlighten all mankind, especially the Jews, to tell them their duty, and 5 And the light therefore is called the light of life, ch. viii. 12.

shineth in darkness;

and the darkness

5. Though through the darkness of men's hearts, 1 comprehended it the greatest part of the Jews themselves had no fruit or benefit by it.

not.

6 ན། There was a

John.

6. There came a man with commission from God man sent from God, to preach repentance to the Jews, whose name— whose name was 7. He was by God sent on purpose to testify that Christ was the Messias, the true Teacher sent from 7 The same came for a 2 witness, to heaven, that so by that testimony of his all men bear witness of the might believe on him.

Light, that all men 8. This John was not the Messias, but the whole through him might end of his mission into the world was to bear witness—

believe.

8 He was not that 9. That Word which now I speak of, that is, Christ, Light, but was sent is that true Light, eminently that, which Light is deto bear witness of fined to be able to refresh and warm the coldest, and that Light. to enlighten the darkest heart; and he, as the sun 9 That was the true Light, which after a long darkness of night, is now risen in our lighteth every man hemisphere (see ver. 10, and ch. ix. 5, and ch. xii. 46,) 1 received or apprehended, karéλaßev. testimony, μαρτυρίαν. 3 which coming into the world enlighteneth every man.

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[a] that cometh into and being manifested to the world, shineth forth to the world. every man therein.

10 He was in the 10. This Word was from the beginning in the world, and the world world, in so eminent a manner, that indeed the world was made by him, and the world knew was made by him, but the generality of men did not him not. take notice of him.

II He came unto

received him not.

11. And therefore there being one peculiar nation, his own, and his own the Jews, which were more fully than all the world besides instructed in this truth, he at last came to this people, was pleased to be born, and live, and do miracles among them, and these that were his own people did not entertain him as sent from God, but rejected and put him to death.

12 But as many

12. But all that received, that is, believed on him, as received him, to were by him advanced to be the adopted sons of them gave he power God.

to become the sons

of God, even to them 13. To wit, those which live according to the will that believe on his of God, and neither the natural nor carnal, nor bare

name:

[b]born, not of blood,

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moral principle.

13 Which were 14. And this eternal Word was born in human nor of the will of the flesh, assumed our nature, and in that flesh of ours, flesh, nor of the will as in a tabernacle, appeared among us most gloriousof man, but of God. ly, in such a manner as was not competible to any 14 And the Word but the one true eternal Son of God. And whereas was made flesh, and the former tabernacle, wherein God was pleased to * [c] dwelt among us, (and we beheld dwell, had in it the law, that ministration only of his glory, the glory death, 2 Cor. iii. 7, precepts of exact obedience, he [d]as of the only be- now in the tabernacle of his flesh, by his incarnation gotten of the Fa- and passion, &c., is all full of grace, that is, exceedther,) full of grace and truth. ing mercy and whereas the whole business of that tabernacle was nothing but shadows, he hath brought the substance and truth with him, which was meant by all those shadows, the inward purity, shadowed by the legal precepts of circumcision, &c., and spiritual and eternal promises, instead of those carnal or temporal: see ver. 17.

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15 John bare

15. John the Baptist testified and proclaimed conwitness of him, and cerning him, saying, He that follows me, whose forecried, saying, This was he of whom I runner I am, hath been and must always be preferred spake, He that com- infinitely before me; for although he appears after eth after me is pre- me among you in respect of his birth and entering ferred before me: on his office, yet he had a being long before me: and for he [e] was before this was most truly said of the Baptist, for he was before the creation of the world, vv. 2, 3, and Col. i. 17.

me.

16 And of his ful

16. And being full of all graces, excellencies, per* from, παρά. 6 This was he, OUTOS .

Or, had his tabernacle.

ness have all we re- fections, he hath communicated them to us in that ceived, and grace degree as is necessary for us, and in proportion to for grace. his abundant charity and goodness toward us, we 17 For the law was given by Moses, but Christians which are his body or fellow-members of grace and truth came his human nature, receive grace and mercy flowing by Jesus Christ. from him to us (see ver. 14, and note [e] 1 Pet. iii., 18 No man hath and note [f] Acts ii.). time; the only be- 17. For though the law were given by Moses from gotten Son, which God long ago, yet the gospel, called grace, ver. 14, is in the bosom of (see note [d] Heb. xiii.) as it is opposed to the the Father, he hath severity and rigour of the law, and truth, as opposite 19 And this is to the shadows and ceremonies of the law, was to be the record of John, brought in by Jesus Christ.

seen God at any

declared him.

ask him, Who art thou?

when the Jews sent 18. God is invisible, and not approachable by us, priests and Levites and so his will and the knowledge of his attributes from Jerusalem to cannot be conveyed to us but by some intercessor, and of this sort none can be comparable to Christ 20 And he confess- Jesus, who is next unto the Father and most dearly ed, and denied not; beloved by him, and knows most of his mind, (see but confessed, I am note [g] Matt. viii.,) and his end of coming into the 21 And they asked World was to declare this unto us.

not the Christ.

him, What then? 19, 20. Now when the Jews sent messengers to Art thou Elias? And John Baptist, as he was preaching and baptizing, to he saith, I am not. know who he was, this was constantly his answer, Art thou that pro- That he was not the Messias prophesied of and so phet? And he anlong expected by them.

swered, No.

22 Then said they 21. No, nor Elias; no, nor the prophet, (some unto him, Who art special prophet, perhaps Jeremy, which had been thou? that we may among them,) the return of whom the Jews expected give an answer to before Elias, as him before the Messias.

them that sent us.

What sayest thou

of thyself?

23 He said, I am

the voice of one a he that was prophesied of by Esaias in those crying in the wilder words, Isa. xl. 3, (see Matt. iii. 3,) The voice of one, ness, Make straight

&c. the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.

24 And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.

25 And they asked

b

b

him, and said unto Why then dost thou receive disciples, and prohim, Why baptiz- selytes, or followers, and that after the solemn manner est thou then, if thou of receiving proselytes, by way of baptism or washing, if thou be not—

be not that Christ,

nor Elias, neither

that prophet?

26 John answered

7 the, ő.

them, saying, I baptize with water: but 8 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

b

was not long since among you, one of whom you took no notice, that is, Christ: see note [d].

whose disciple I am not worthy to be: see note

I am not worthy to [g] Matt. iii.

unloose."

28 These things were done in 10 Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.

hold the Lamb of

29 [f]The next 29. The day after the return of the Pharisees, day John seeth Je- John seeing Jesus coming to him, said, Behold the sus coming unto person sent from God, as a lamb prepared for the him, and saith, Be-slaughter, (in whom are summed up and completed God, which taketh all the typical Mosaical prescriptions of lambs to be away the sin of the sacrificed, either in their daily sacrifices or at the world. passover,) who shall thereby obtain pardon from God 30 This is he of for that sin that all the world is engaged in, on conwhom I said, After dition they now reform at his coming.

me cometh a man which is preferred before me for he was before me.

30. See note [c] ver. 15.

31. And though I was not able to discriminate him 31 And I knew him not but that from others, yet a little before his baptism it was rehe should be made vealed to me, (as appears Matt. iii. 14,) and at his manifest to Israel, baptism, by the descent of the Holy Ghost upon him, therefore am I come Matt. iii. 16, I was clearly told it, that he was the baptizing with water. 32 And John bare Messias which was to come into the world; and the record, saying, I grand design of my coming and gathering disciples saw the Spirit de- was by that means to make this people take notice of scending 11 from and receive Christ.

heaven like a dove,

and it abode upon

him.

33 And I knew him

See note [] Matt. iii.

33. Until then I knew not which was he, only this not: but he that sent sign was given me, that on whomsoever I saw the me to baptize with Spirit descend, that was the Messias; who in the reUpon ceiving of his proselytes doth not only use the known whom thou shalt see ceremony of water, but, moreover, sends down the the Spirit descend- Spirit on them, (see note [a] Acts i.)

water, the same said

unto me,

ing, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.

9 he shall bapἘκεῖνος ὑμᾶς, &c.

s in the midst of you stood one whom ye knew not, μéoos vuwv čoтNKEV. tize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire: so ancient copies add here. 10 Bethany; for the ancient MS. in the King's library reads Boavia, and so some others. 11 as a dove out of heaven, and he, ὡσεὶ περιστερὰν ἐξ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ ἔμεινεν.

34 And I saw, and bare record that this

34. By which premises it follows, that my testiis the Son of God. mony of Christ, that he is the Son of God, is no more 35 Again the than what I saw with mine eyes, and heard distinctly ། Againthe next day after John affirmed from heaven, these words being delivered stood, and two of by voice from heaven at that time of the Holy his disciples; Ghost's descending on him, This is my beloved Son, 36 And looking &c., Matt. iii. 17.

upon Jesus as he

walked, he saith, 35. The next day again after this, (see note [e],) Behold the Lamb of John having two of his disciples with him,

God!

36. As Jesus passed along, John, by his eye fasten37. And the two ed on him, demonstrating whom he meant, said again disciples heard him speak, and they fol- the same words that before, ver. 29, in the hearing of those two disciples of his, Behold, &c.

lowed Jesus.

38 Then Jesus 37. Hereupon those two disciples, hearing him turned, and saw give that testimony of Jesus, parted from him and them following, and followed Jesus.

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 tenth hour.

40 One of the two

? e What would ye have? They said—

f four in the afternoon.

40. One of the two that heard those words of John which 12 heard John concerning Jesus, and which thereupon followed speak, and followed Jesus, ver. 37, was that Andrew which was brother him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's bro- to Simon, after surnamed Peter; (and the other, most probably, John, the writer of this Gospel, who 41 He first findeth useth not to name himself when the story would his own brother Si- direct to it.)

ther.

mon, and saith unto

him, We have found 41. These having been and talked with Christ, the Messias, which ver. 39, Andrew was the first that revealed this to is, being interpreted, his brother Simon, saying, We have met and talked the 13 Christ. with the Messias, or, as in Greek he is called, the he Christ, that is, God's Anointed sent by him with speJesus. And when cial commission from heaven, whom we have long Jesus beheld him, expected as the Redeemer of Israel.

42 And

[g] brought him to

he said, Thou art 42. And Andrew conducted Simon: see note [f] Simon the son of Matt. xvi.

14 Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by inter

pretation, A stone.'

12 had heard from John, and, ἀκουσάντων παρὰ Ἰωάννου, καὶ ἀκολουθ. 13 Anointed, XpiσTÓS. 14 John (see Luke iii. 30); for other ancient copies read 'Iwávvov.

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