Sunday Bible Study: The Gospel of John

The Gospel of John

Today, I’m repeating verse 51 because the third footnote is so important and would have made last weeks post too long. I wanted to give all of you a chance to really read this footnote. It’s that important.

John 1:51

v. 51 And He said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, You shall see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.

Footnotes:
1: 51 (Truly, truly means). In Greek, Amen, amen. So throughout the book.
1:51 (heaven opened), This is the fulfillment of Jacob’s dream (Gen. 28:11 – 22). Christ as the Son of Man, with His humanity, is the ladder set up on the earth and leading to heaven, keeping heaven open to earth and joining earth to heaven for the house of God, Bethel. Jacob poured oil (a symbol of the Holy Spirit, the ultimate expression of the Triune God reaching man) upon the stone (a symbol of the transformed man) that it might be the house of God. Here in this chapter are the Spirit (v. 32) and the stone (v. 42) for the house of God with Christ in His humanity. Where this is, there is an open heaven.

1:51 (Son of Man). This chapter, as the introduction to this Gospel, introduces Christ as both the Son of God (vv. 34, 49) and the Son of Man, Nathanael recognized Him as the Son of God and addressed Him as such (v. 49), but Christ said to Nathanael that He was the Son of Man. The Son of God is God; as such, He has the divine nature. The Son of Man is man; as such, He possesses the human nature. For the declaring of God (v. 18) and for the bringing of God to man, He is the only begotten Son of God. But for the building of God’s habitation on earth among men, He is the Son of Man. God’s building needs His humanity. In eternity past Christ was only God, only the Son of God, and had only divinity; but in eternity future Christ, as God and man and as the Son of God and the Son of Man, will have both divinity and humanity forever.

(He is the sinless God Man).

Nancy

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Sunday Bible Study: The Gospel of John

The Gospel of John

John 1:46 – 51

I’m repeating verse 46 today from last Sunday because it is important to hear what Nathanael said to Philip in order to appreciate what Jesus says to Nathanael. Jesus calls Nathanael on his remark about Nazareth and while it is not obvious in what follows to our ears as readers, I believe that Nathanael was deeply touched within his heart because of what he declares afterward.

v. 46 And Nathanael said to him, Can anything good be from Nazareth? Philip said to him, Come and see.
v. 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him and said concerning him, Behold, truly an Israelite, in whom there is no guile!
v. 48 Natanael said to Him, How do You know me? Jesus answered and said to him, Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree, I saw you.
v. 49 Nathanael answered Him, Rabbi, You are the Son of God; You are the King of Israel.
v. 50 Jesus answered and said to him, Is it because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree that you believe? You shall see greater things than these.
v. 51 And He said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, You shall see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.

Footnotes:
1:49 (King) The Messiah.
1: 51 (Truly, truly means). In Greek, Amen, amen. So throughout the book.
1:51 (heaven opened), This is the fulfillment of Jacob’s dream (Gen. 28:11 – 22). Christ as the Son of Man, with His humanity, is the ladder set up on the earth and leading to heaven, keeping heaven open to earth and joining earth to heaven for the house of God, Bethel. Jacob poured oil (a symbol of the Holy Spirit, the ultimate expression of the Triune God reaching man) upon the stone (a symbol of the transformed man) that it might be the house of God. Here in this chapter are the Spirit (v. 32) and the stone (v. 42) for the house of God with Christ in His humanity. Where this is, there is an open heaven.

Nancy

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Sunday Bible Study: The Gospel of John

The Gospel of John

John 1:40 – 46

v. 40 One of the two who heard this from John and followed Him was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.
v. 41 He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, We have found the Messiah (which translated means Christ).
v. 42 He led him to Jesus. Looking at him, Jesus said, You are Simon, the son of John; you shall be called Cephas (which is interpreted, Peter).
v. 43 The next day He wanted to go forth into Galilee, and He found Philip. And Jesus said to him, Follow Me.
v. 44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.
v. 45 Philip found Nathanael and said to him, We have found Him of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote, Jesus, the son of Joseph, from Nazareth.
v. 46 And Nathanael said to him, Can anything good be from Nazareth? Philip said to him, Come and see.

Footnotes:
1:41 Messiah is a Hebrew word; Christ is the Greek translation. Both mean the anointed. Christ is God’s Anointed, the One appointed by God to accomplish God’s purpose, God’s eternal plan.
1:42 (Cephas). Meaning a stone. In Matt. 16:18 the Lord mentioned this word when He spoke to Peter about the building of the church. It must have been from his that Peter obtained the concept of living stones for the building of a spiritual house (1 Pet. 2:5), which is the church. The stone here denotes a work of transformation that brings forth material for God’s building (1Cor. 3:12).
1:45 The information that Philip passed on to Nathanael in the words son of Joseph and from Nazareth was inaccurate. Jesus was born not of Joseph but of Mary (Matt. 1:16), and not in Nazareth but in Bethlehem (Luke 2:4 – 7).

Nancy

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The Gospel of John

John 1:35 – 39

v. 35 Again the next day John was standing with two of his disciples,
v. 36 And looking at Jesus walking, he said, Behold, the Lamb of God!
v. 37 And the two disciples heard him speak this, and they followed Jesus.
v. 38 And Jesus, turning and beholding them following, said to them, What are you seeking? And they said to Him, Rabbi (which translated means Teacher), where are You staying?
v. 39 He said to them, Come, and you will see. They went therefore and saw where He was staying, and they stayed with Him that day; it was about the tenth hour.

Footnote: 1:39

L.e, 10:00 a.m., Roman time. Roman time is used throughout the book.

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I’m tired today so that is all. I hope you enjoyed John.

Nancy

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The Gospel of John
John 1:29 – 34

v. 29 The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
v. 30 This is He of whom I said, A man is coming after me who has become ahead of me, because He was before me.
v. 31 And I did not know Him, but in order that He might be manifested to Israel, for this reason I came baptizing in water.
v. 32 And John testified saying, I beheld the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven, and He abode upon Him.
v. 33 And I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize in water, He said to me, He upon whom you see the Spirit descending and abiding upon Him, this is He who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.
v. 34 And I have seen and have testified that this is the Son of God.

Footnotes.

29:1; Based on the Scriptures, the religious people were looking for a great leader (vv. 19-25) such as Messiah, Elijah, or the Prophet (Dan. 9:26; Mal. 4:5; Deut. 18:15, 18). But Jesus was introduced to them as a little lamb with a little dove (vv. 29-33). The Lamb takes sin away from man, and the dove brings God as life to man. The Lamb is for redemption, to redeem fallen man back to God, and the dove is for life-giving, for anointing, to anoint man with what God is, to bring God into man and man into God, and for uniting the believers in God. Both the Lamb and the dove are needed for man to participate in God.
29:2; The world here refers to mankind, as in 3:16.

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John 1:17 – 18

v. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and reality came through Jesus Christ.

v. 18 No one has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

Footnote:
1:17 The law makes demands on man according to what God is; grace supplies man with what God is to meet what God demands. The law, at most, was only a testimony of what God is (Exo. 25:21), but reality is the realization of what God is. No man can partake of God through the law, but grace enables man to enjoy God. Reality is God realized by man, and grace is God enjoyed by man.

1:18 The Father’s only begotten Son declared God by the Word, life, light, grace, and reality. The Word is God expressed, life is God imparted, light is God shining, grace is God enjoyed, and reality is God realized, apprehended. God is fully declared in the Son through these five things.

Nancy

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John 1:15 – 16

v. 15 John testified concerning Him and cried out, saying, This was He of whom I said, He who is coming after me has become ahead of me, because He was before me.

v. 16 For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace.

Footnote:
1:16 Literally, out of.

This is the only footnote for these two verses.

As I reflect on the New Year I am reminded that we all need to be renewed daily by the blood and life of Christ. As Christians, His life dwells within us and we have grace, upon grace to partake of Him. All we need to do is exercise our will to do this. So call out to Him, in good times and bad and allow the Triune God to be your experience.

Nancy

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Last week I posted The Gospel According to John, part one of John 1: 14. I shared footnotes one and two. To review go here.

The Gospel According to John, part two.
John 1: 14

v. 14 And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality.

Footnote:
14:3 The Word, by being incarnated, not only brought God into humanity but also became a tabernacle to God as God’s habitation on earth among men.
14:4 This refers to Christ’s transfiguration on the Mount (Matt, 17:1-2, 5; Luke 9:32;
2 Pet. 1:16-18).
14:5 Gk, para, which means by the side of, implying with; hence, it is, literally, from with. The Son not only is from God but also is with God. On the one hand, He is from God, and on the other hand, He is still with God (8:16b, 29, 16:32b).
14:6 Grace is God in the Son as our enjoyment; reality is God realized by us in the Son. The Greek word for reality is the same as that for truth in 5:33, 8:32, and 17:17, 19.

Most of the time I just share the verses and footnotes with you without sharing anything personal. This time, I thought I would share some personal experiences, my testimony. Part of it, anyway.

When I was a toddler I nearly died three times. Penicillin was discovered during WWII. If I had been born twelve years earlier, I wouldn’t have lived past my childhood. My mother is a nurse. She prayed over me and gave me to the Lord Jesus. From the time I can remember, Jesus became my silent playmate and later my Savior as I grew in my understanding and experience of this Wonderful Person. Praise the Lord!

Nancy

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The Gospel According to John
John 1: 14

v. 14 And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality.

Footnote:
14:1 For the Word as God to become flesh is for God to have the human life and the human nature.
14: 2 Romans 8:3 indicates that although this flesh was the flesh of sin, it had only the likeness of the flesh of sin and did not have the sin of the flesh. It is the Word who became such flesh, and this Word was God, the complete Triune God (v. 1). That the Word became flesh means that the Triune God became a man of flesh in the likeness of a sinful man. By so doing God entered into sinful man and became one with sinful man. However, He had only the likeness of a sinful man and not the sin of a sinful man. Hence, He was a sinless God-man, the complete God and the perfect man, having two natures, the divine nature and the human nature. Although His two natures were mingled to produce a God-man, the individual characteristics of the two natures remained distinct; the two natures did not intermix to form a third nature. Rather, the divine nature existed in the human nature and was expressed through the human nature, full of grace, which is God enjoyed by man, and reality, which is God obtained by man. In this way the invisible God was expressed so that men can obtain and enjoy Him as their life for the fulfillment of His New Testament economy.
God’s becoming flesh was contrary to the teaching of the Gnostics of that time. The Gnostics maintained that since the flesh is an evil substance, God, who is pure, could never be united with the evil flesh. Using the teaching of the Gnostics as a basis, the Docetists denied that Christ had come in the flesh (1 John 4:2). John wrote this Gospel in part to refute the heresy of the Docetists and to prove strongly that Christ, the God-man, is indeed God who became flesh (having only the likeness of the flesh of sin but not the sin of the flesh) that through this flesh, on the one hand, He might destroy the devil (Heb. 2:14) and put away the sins of man (Heb. 9:26), and on the other hand, God might be united with man and be expressed through humanity for the fulfillment of His glorious purpose, a purpose He planned in eternity past for eternity future.
The deep thought of the Gospel of John is that Christ, the incarnate God, came as the embodiment of God, as illustrated by the tabernacle (v. 14) and the temple (2:21), so that man could contact Him and enter into Him to enjoy the riches contained in God. Both the tabernacle and the temple had an outer court, a Holy Place, and a Holy of Holies. Therefore, John points out first that Christ was the Lamb (who took away sin—v. 29) offered on the altar, which signifies the cross, in the outer court of the tabernacle, and then that He was like the bronze serpent (which caused man to have life) lifted up on the pole (3:14), which signifies the cross. This shows how Christ in His redemption was received by His believers that they might be delivered from sin and obtain life and might enter into Him as the embodiment of God, typified by the tabernacle, to enjoy all the riches that are in God. The foot-washing in ch. 13 may be considered the washing in the laver in the outer court of the tabernacle, which washed away the earthly defilement of those who drew near to God, so that their fellowship with God and with one another could be maintained. In ch. 14 those who receive Christ are brought by Him into the Holy Place to experience Him as the bread of life (6:35), signified by the showbread, and as the light of life (8:12, 9:5), signified by the lampstand. Eventually, in ch. 17, through the highest and most mysterious prayer, which is typified by the burning incense altar, those who enjoy Christ as life and as light are brought by Him into the Holy of Holies to enter with Him into the deepest enjoyment of God and to enjoy the glory that God has given Him (17: 22-24).

There’s more. I will continue next week.

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The Gospel According to John
John 1: 12 – 13

I’m repeating v. 12 to balance v 13 and because of the way the verses are outlined in the Recovery Version Bible.

v.12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the authority to become children of God, to those who believe into His name,

v. 13 Who were begotten not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Footnote:

12:1 To believe into is to receive.

12:2 For human beings to become children of God is for man to have the divine life and the divine nature.

13:1 out of

13:2 Blood (lit., bloods) here signifies the physical life; will of the flesh denotes the will of fallen man after man became flesh; and will of man refers to the will of the man created by God.

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The Gospel According to John
John 1: 10 – 12

v.10 He was in the world, and the world came into being through Him, yet the world did not know Him.
v.11 He came to His own, yet those who were His own did not receive Him.
v.12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the authority to become children of God, to those who believe into His name,

Footnote:
12:1 To believe into is to receive.
12:2 For human beings to become children of God is for man to have the divine life and the divine nature.

(We can’t have the divine life and the divine nature without receiving Christ into our hearts. He is God and He becomes God in us.)

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The Gospel According to John
John 1: 6 – 9

v.6. There came a man sent from God, whose name was John.
v.7. He came for a testimony that he might testify concerning the light, that all might believe through him.
v.8. He was not the light, but came that he might testify concerning the light.
v.9. This was the true light which, coming into the world, enlightens every man.

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The Gospel According to John

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

Footnote 1:4
Since v. 3 refers to the creation in Gen. 1, Life here should refer to the life signified by the tree of life in Gen. 2. This is confirmed by the fact that in Rev. 22 John mentions the tree of life. Since life is in Him, He is life (11:25; 14:6). and He came that man might have life (10:10b), The introduction to this Gospel is composed of this entire chapter; it begins with life (v.4) and ends with building (vv. 42, 51), that is, with the house of God, (see notes 42:1, 51:3 Hence, it is an introduction to life and building.

Footnote 1:4.2 The light for the old creation was physical light (Gen.1:3-5, 14-18). The light for the new creation is the Light of Life mentioned here.

John 1:5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.

No footnotes verse 5.

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The Gospel According to John
John 1:2
He was in the beginning with God.

Footnote: 2.2
In the beginning, that is, from eternity past, the Word was with God. Contrary to what is supposed by some, it is not that Christ was not with God and was Not God from eternity past, and that at a certain time Christ became God and was with God. Christ’s deity is eternal and absolute. From eternity past to eternity future, He is with God and He is God. This is why this Gospel, unlike Matthew (ch. 1) and Luke (ch. 3), has no genealogy of Christ (Heb. 7:3).

John 1:3
All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him not one thing came into being which has come into being.

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The Gospel According to John
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Footnote 1.1
In the beginning means in eternity past. As the introduction to this Gospel, this chapter begins in eternity past with God, who had divinity but not humanity (v.1)…there’s a lot more.

Footnote 1:2
The Word is the definition, explanation, and expression of God; hence, it is God defined, explained, and expressed.

Footnote 1:3
The Word is not separate from God. It is not that the Word is the Word and God is God, and that they are thus separate from each other. Rather, the two are one; hence, the next clause says that the Word was God.

Footnote 1:4
That the Word is God implies that God in His person is not simple; He is triune.

Footnote 1:5
Not God the Son only, but the complete Triune God.

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