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In the Book of Common Prayer (1928) and Book of Common Prayer (1979), St. John 1:1-14 is appointed as the Gospel lesson for the principal celebration on Christmas Day. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] The Revised Common Lectionary provides three sets of Propers for Christmas, with John 1:1-14 assigned in Proper III, intended for use at the principal celebration ...
Augustine: "You must not suppose, however, that He was in the world in the same sense in which the earth, cattle, men, are in the world; but in the sense in which an artificer controls his own work; whence the text, And the world was made by Him. Nor again did He make it after the manner of an artificer; for whereas an artificer is external to ...
Origen: "John, as it appears, saw from the question, that the Priests and Levites had doubts whether it might not be the Christ, who was baptizing; which doubts however they were afraid to profess openly, for fear of incurring the charge of credulity. He wisely determines therefore first to correct their mistake, and then to proclaim the truth.
There is a widespread scholarly view that the Gospel of John can be broken into four parts: a prologue, (John 1:–1:18), the Book of Signs (1:19 to 12:50), the Book of Glory (or Exaltation) (13:1 to 20:31) and an epilogue (chapter 21). [1] John 20:30 Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are ...
The writer of the gospel divides the events of verses 19 to 50 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" in verse 29, and on "the next day again", [1] he directs his own disciples towards following Jesus (John 1:35-37).
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The New International Version translates the passage as: There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. The New Living Translation identifies John as "John the Baptist". [1]
The Angel told Zacharias concerning John, He shall go before Him in the spirit and power of Elias. (Luke 1:17) As Elias then will preach the second advent of our Lord, so John preached His first; as the former will come as the precursor of the Judge, so the latter was made the precursor of the Redeemer.
Hilary of Poitiers: "Whereas he had said, the Word was God, the fearfulness, and strangeness of the speech disturbed me; the prophets having declared that God was One.But, to quiet my apprehensions, the fisherman reveals the scheme of this so great mystery, and refers all to one, without dishonour, without obliterating [the Person], without reference to time, saying, The Same was in the ...