Father, in the Sweet Name of Jesus, open our spiritual eyes and hearts that we may receive Your Word and give us understanding through the guidance of the Holy Spirit. May we grow in maturity and may You receive great Glory and Honor from our efforts. Amen.
Before we begin may I suggest that you make yourself some sort of summary outline for each chapter. You can make it anyway you like, for your own personal study and reference. I will list a sample I got from one of the great Bible Scholars.
1. Theme
2. Most important verse
3. Most prominent word
4. Teaching about Christ
5. Command to obey
6. Promise to claim
7. New truth learned
Add, to or modify that outline to suit yourself.
Chapter 1 of this Gospel deal with identification. It tell us who Jesus is. Verses 1 thru 3 tells us that Jesus is God: He is the Creator God. Verses 4 & 5 tell us that He is the Life and the Light, and that He shines in the darkness and the darkness does not comprehend Him. The darkness is the darkness of the sinful world and and that world can not extinguish that Light. The root of that word in the original language suggests that the world cannot possess or control, or stop Him
Then John draws a clear distinction between Christ and John the Baptist.
1. Jesus always existed and came from Eternity
John waas born
2. Jesus is God
John is man
3. Jesus is of Himself, God
John was sent by God
4. Jesus IS the Light
John testified of the Light
5. Jesus is the Messiah in whom we trust
John was here to point men to Him.
This chapter goes on to tell us that even though He made the world, and though He became flesh and entered the world, the world did not know Him. But to those who did receive Him and believe on His Name, He gave the power to become the sons of God. I love the way Phillips translates verse 14: "So the word of God became a human being and lived among us. We saw his splendour (the splendour as of a father's only son), full of grace and truth."
Beginning in verse 19 is a parade of parade of witnesses identifying Jesus as The Revealer, Redeemer, Messiah, the fullfillment of the OT, the Son of God, and King of Israel, by John the Baptist, Andrew, Phillip, and Nathanael.
I think we come out of chapter 1 with a clear picture of Who Jesus is and Why He came.
Before we begin may I suggest that you make yourself some sort of summary outline for each chapter. You can make it anyway you like, for your own personal study and reference. I will list a sample I got from one of the great Bible Scholars.
1. Theme
2. Most important verse
3. Most prominent word
4. Teaching about Christ
5. Command to obey
6. Promise to claim
7. New truth learned
Add, to or modify that outline to suit yourself.
Chapter 1 of this Gospel deal with identification. It tell us who Jesus is. Verses 1 thru 3 tells us that Jesus is God: He is the Creator God. Verses 4 & 5 tell us that He is the Life and the Light, and that He shines in the darkness and the darkness does not comprehend Him. The darkness is the darkness of the sinful world and and that world can not extinguish that Light. The root of that word in the original language suggests that the world cannot possess or control, or stop Him
Then John draws a clear distinction between Christ and John the Baptist.
1. Jesus always existed and came from Eternity
John waas born
2. Jesus is God
John is man
3. Jesus is of Himself, God
John was sent by God
4. Jesus IS the Light
John testified of the Light
5. Jesus is the Messiah in whom we trust
John was here to point men to Him.
This chapter goes on to tell us that even though He made the world, and though He became flesh and entered the world, the world did not know Him. But to those who did receive Him and believe on His Name, He gave the power to become the sons of God. I love the way Phillips translates verse 14: "So the word of God became a human being and lived among us. We saw his splendour (the splendour as of a father's only son), full of grace and truth."
Beginning in verse 19 is a parade of parade of witnesses identifying Jesus as The Revealer, Redeemer, Messiah, the fullfillment of the OT, the Son of God, and King of Israel, by John the Baptist, Andrew, Phillip, and Nathanael.
I think we come out of chapter 1 with a clear picture of Who Jesus is and Why He came.