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John 1:28 is the twenty-eighth verse in the first chapter of the ... who was making ready a people prepared for the Lord. . Jordan, again, means, “their descent ...
The evangelist divides this series of events into four 'days': the day (or period) when the Jerusalem delegation met John to enquire into his identity and purpose (John 1:19–28) is followed by John seeing Jesus coming towards him "the next day" , and on "the next day again" [30] he directs his own disciples towards following Jesus (John 1:35 ...
Our Lord then, when He came in the flesh, put on, as it were, shoes; because in His Divinity He took the flesh of our corruption, wherein we had of ourselves perished. And the latchet of the shoe, is the seal upon the mystery. John is not able to unloose the shoe’s latchet; i. e. even he cannot penetrate into the mystery of the Incarnation.
Stephen L. Harris claims that John adapted Philo's concept of the Logos, identifying Jesus as an incarnation of the divine Logos that formed the universe. [7]While John 1:1 is generally considered the first mention of the Logos in the New Testament, arguably, the first reference occurs in the book of Revelation.
Phillips offers the reading "The light still shines in the darkness and the darkness has never put it out." [ 5 ] The Greek word, "κατέλαβεν (katelaben)", is an example of polysemy and can be equally translated as either "understand", "overtake" or "overcome". [ 6 ]
"I am the Voice, etc." comes from Isaiah 40:3.Witham expands the meaning as: "I am a servant, and prepare paths, your hearts, for the Lord. I come, he says, to say that He is at the doors who is expected, that you may be prepared to go whithersoever He may bid you.” [1] MacEvilly notes that, "Having already declared what he was not, he now declares in very distinct terms, what he was, thus ...
The Word's glory is dependent on the Father's presence in his monogenes Son (cf. John 17:5); monogenes (μονογενοῦς 6]), meaning 'only', 'unique', 'precious' (cf. Hebrew 11:17 about Isaac), or 'born from the one', used four times in the Gospel of John (1:14,18; 3:16, 18), and once in 1 John 4:9 to demonstrate the 'very special ...
MacEvilly notes that this they thought as being particularly daring on the part of John, since he denied being a prophet; for the prophets foretold that when Christ would come, baptism was to be administered to the people (Ezech. 36:25; Zach. 13:1). And the Pharisees who were learned in the law, knew this.