John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.… Jehovah-Jesus: John 1:1-18. the intimacy of John, John 13:23.19:26.20:2.21:7, 20. "with Jesus," John 18:15. -- John writes of Jesus -- - when he wrote -- getting the range -- his literary style -- the beginning -- the Word -- this was Jesus -- the tragic tone. God's Spokesman: the Creator was Jehovah -- - Jehovah is Jesus -- the Spokesman -- Old Testament revelations, Adam, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, the elders of Israel, Isaiah, Ezekiel, -- Whom these saw -- various ways of speaking -- John's Gospel a battlefield -- finding the Man. Whom Moses Saw: Jesus' own standpoint -- "down from heaven," John 3:13, 31.6:38.8:42. would go back again, John 6:62. John 16:5, 10.13:1. come on an errand, then going back, John 16:28 13:3. He only had seen the Father, John 6:46. only begotten Son, John 3:16, 18. His own Father, John 5:17, 18.10:32-33.19:7. -- Jesus' answer to Jews' objection, John 5:19-47. -- "He wrote of Me," the true meaning -- I and the Father one, John 10:30. -- the Father in Me, John 10:38. the name Father in Old Testament, 2 Samuel 7:14.1 Chronicles 17:13.22:10. Psalm 68:5.89:26.103:13. Isaiah 63:16.64:8. Jeremiah 3:4, 19. Malachi 3:17. -- Jehovah the common name -- trace Jesus' use of Father about 180 times -- manna, John 6:32. Jesus is God Wooing Man: "Abraham -- saw and was glad," John 8:33-59 -- supposed meanings -- natural meaning -- "I am" -- Jesus is Jehovah come Himself to woo man. Parallel Verses KJV: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.WEB: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. |
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