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# mat 28:20 mar 16:20 re 22:21
@Joh1:1
John 1:1
* Concluding Remarks on St. John's Gospel
John, who, according to the unanimous testimony of the ancient
fathers and ecclesiastical writers, was the author of this
Gospel,
was the son of Zebedee, a fisherman of Betsaida, by Samone his
wife, (compare Mat. X.2,with Mat XXVII 55,56 and Mar XV.40) and
brother of James the elder, whom 'Herod killed with the sword,'
(Ac XII.2:) THEOPHYLACT says that Salome was the daughter of
Joseph, the husband of Mary, by a former wife; and that
consequently she was our Lord's sister, and John was his nephew.
He followed the occupation of his father till his call to the
apostleship, (Mat IV,21,22, Mar I,19,20, Lu V.1-10,) which is
supposed to have been when he was about twenty five years of
age;
after which he was a constant eye-witness of our Lord's labours,
journeying, discourses, miracles, passion, crucifixion,
resurrection, and ascension. After the ascension of our Lord he
returned with the other apostles to Jerusalem, and with the
rest
partook of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of
Pentecost, by which he was eminently qualified for the office
for
the office of an Evangelist and Apostle. After the death of
Mary,
the mother of Christ, which is supposed to have taken place
about
fifteen years after the crucifixion, and probably after the
council held in Jerusalem about A.D. 49 or 50, (Ac XV.,) at
which
he was present, he is said by ecclesiastical writers to have
proceeded to Asia Minor, where he formed and presided over
seven
churches in as many cities, but chiefly at Ephesus. Thence he
was
banished by the emperor Domitianm, in the fifteenth year of his
reign, A.D. 95, to the isle of Patmos in the Aegean sea, where
he
wrote the Apocolypse (Re I.9) On the accession of Nerva the
following year, he was recalled from exile and returned to
Ephesus, where he wrote his Gospel and Epistles, and died in
the
hundredth year oh his age, about A.D. 100, and in the third
year of
the emperor Trajan. It is generally believed that St. John was
the youngest of the twelve apostles, and that he survived all
the
rest. JEROME, in his comment on Gal. VI., says that he
continued
preaching when so enfeebled with age as to be obliged to be
carried into the assembly; and that, not being able to deliver
any
long discourse, his custom was to say in every meeting, 'My
dear
children, love one another.' The general current of ancient
writers declares that the apostle wrote his Gospel at an
advanced
period of life, with which the internal evidence perfectly
agrees;
and we may safely refer it, with CHRYSOSTOM, EPIPHANIUS, MILL,
LE
CLERC, and others, to the year 97: The design of St. John in
writing his Gospel is said by some to have been to supply those
important events which the other Evangelists had omitted, and
to
refute the notions of the Corinthians and Nicolaitans, or
according to others, to refute the heresy of the Gnostics and
Sabians. But, though many parts of his Gospel may be
successfully
quoted against the strange doctrines held by those sects, yet
the
apostle had evidently a more general end in view than the
confutation of their heresies. His own words sufficiently
inform
us of his motive and design in writing this Gospel: 'These
things
are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the
Son of God; and that believing, ye might have life through his
name.' (ch. XX.31:) Learned men are not wholly agreed
concerning
the language in which this Gospel was originally written.
SALMASIUS, GROTIUS, and other writers, have imagined that St.
John
wrote it in his own native tongue, the Aramean or Syriac, and
that
it was afterwards translated into Greek. This opinion is not
supported by any strong arguments, and is contradicted by the
unanimous voice of antiquity, which affirms that he wrote it
in Greek, which is the general and most probable opinion. The
style of this Gospel indicates a great want of those
advantages which result from a learned education; but this
defect is amply compensated by the unexampled simplicity with
which he expresses the sublimest truths. One thing very
remarkable is an attempt to impress truths more strongly on
the minds of his readers, by employing the expression of them
both an affirmative proposition and a negative. It is
manifestly not without design that he commonly passes over
those passages of our Lord's history and teaching which had
been treated at large by other Evangelists, or if he touches
them at all, he touches them but slightly, whilst he records
many miracles which had been overlooked by the rest, and
expatiates on the sublime doctrines of the pre-existence, the
divinity, and the incarnation of the Word, the great ends of
His mission, and the blessings of His purchase.
* 1-14 The divinity, humanity, office, and incarnation of Jesus
Christ
15-38 The testimony of John 15-38
39-51 The calling of Andrew, Peter, etc.
* the beginning
# Ge 1:1 pr 8:22-31 ep 3:9 col 1:17 he 1:10 7:3 13:8 re 1:2,8,
11
# re 21:6 22:13
* the Word
# jno 1:14 1jno 1:1,2 5:7 re 19:13
* with
# jno 1:18 16:28 17:5 pr 8:22-30 1jno 1:2
* the Word was
# jno 10:30-33 20:28 ps 45:6 is 7:14 9:6 40:9-11 mat 1:23 ro 9:
5
# phi 2:6 1ti 3:16 tit 2:13 he 1:8-13 2pe 1:1 1jno 5:7,20
@Joh1:2
John 1:2
* No references listed for this verse.
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