Exegesis of John 1:10-18 (2)
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forms part of Prologue to Johns Gospel the first part being John John Explains the worlds response to Jesus the light who coming and who was in the world. Jesus who was both rejected by his own and received by many is the revelation of Gods Glory and Grace. As Carson Comments The whole rest of the book is an expansion of the revelation of this grace and Glory.
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He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.
The World did not recognise Jesus even though it was made through him.
There is a threefold emphasis on the World (Kosmos) highlighting, he was in the world, the world was made through his agency but the word did not recognise (Know him) (Egno) him.
He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.
Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.) So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is sick.” When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.” Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days, and then he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.” “But Rabbi,” they said, “a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you, and yet you are going back?” Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks in the daytime will not stumble, for they see by this world’s light. It is when a person walks at night that they stumble, for they have no light.” After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.” His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.” Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep. So then he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead, and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.” Then Thomas (also known as Didymus) said to the rest of the disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.” On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem, and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home. “Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.” Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?” “Yes, Lord,” she replied, “I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.” After she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. “The Teacher is here,” she said, “and is asking for you.” When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him. When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her, noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there. When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. “Where have you laid him?” he asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they replied. Jesus wept. Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?” Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. “Take away the stone,” he said. “But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.” Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?” So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.” When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.” Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. “What are we accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man performing many signs. If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation.” Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, “You know nothing at all! You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.” He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one. So from that day on they plotted to take his life. Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the people of Judea. Instead he withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples. When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing before the Passover. They kept looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple courts they asked one another, “What do you think? Isn’t he coming to the festival at all?” But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where Jesus was should report it so that they might arrest him.
The light came to his own. This makes the lack of recognition by the world all the more scandalous, his own should have been familiar with him, but they were not. He came to his own possessions (io ida)Did not receive, there is a decisive rejection of the creator.
Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—
Many did receive him, In contrast to his own who rejected him.
in receiving him they received the creator. Those who believed (trusted, relied, leaned and depended upon) The emphasis is on faith as an activity.
Edwken. He gave - a gift of Grace not something that was earned.
They were given the right to become Children of God. Teknon as distinct from Son which is reserved for Jesus. Chilfren of God was a term usually allocated to the ethnic Isreal. Here it is those who recieve the light that are given authority to become children of God. Not be, the indication is that ethnicity does not automatically imply sonship.
children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
Nothing human can bring about the new birth. It is Gods doing. They not only believe but become, this is a miracle of God.
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Neither Greek philosophers nor Jewish teachers could conceive of the Word becoming flesh. Since the time of *Plato, Greek philosophers had emphasized that the ideal was what was invisible and eternal; most Jews so heavily emphasized that a human being could not become a god that they never considered that God might become human.
Craig S. Keener, The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament, Second Edition (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic: An Imprint of InterVarsity Press, 2014), 250.
The revelation of God’s word, the Tora / The revelation of God’s Word, Jesus
The revelation of God’s Word, Jesus
God dwelt among his people in the tabernacle (33:10); Moses pleaded that God would continue to dwell with them (33:14–16) / The Word “tabernacled” (literally, in 1:14) among people
The Word “tabernacled” (literally, in 1:14) among people
Moses beheld God’s glor / The disciples beheld Jesus’ glory (1:14)
The disciples beheld Jesus’ glory (1:14)
(John testified concerning him. He cried out, saying, “This is the one I spoke about when I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’ ”)
Jesus is more important than John
Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given.
This is personal Testimony, Jesus the Son of God is the fullness of Gods grace. An Inexhaustible resource of Grace.
Grace upon Grace - 17 explains the meaning of 16
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
17 explains the meaning of 16
Grace was present in the Law, the law was given out of Grace, The Truth and Wisdom that was given in the Law are embodied in Jesus who embodies the grace wisdom and truth that the Law revealed and was gicen from.
The glory was full of grace and truth
And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness,
The glory was full of grace and truth (1:14)
The glory was full of grace and truth (1:14)
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The law was given through Moses (1:17)
No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
The law was given through Moses (1:17)
No one could see all of God’s glory (33:20)
No one could see all of God’s glory (1:18a), but it is fully revealed in Jesus (1:18b)
John
John
The revelation of God’s word, the Torah
The revelation of God’s Word, Jesus
God dwelt among his people in the tabernacle (33:10); Moses pleaded that God would continue to dwell with them (33:14–16)
The Word “tabernacled” (literally, in 1:14) among people
Moses beheld God’s glory
The disciples beheld Jesus’ glory (1:14)
The glory was full of grace and truth (34:6)
The glory was full of grace and truth (1:14)
The law was given through Moses
The law was given through Moses (1:17)
No one could see all of God’s glory (33:20)
No one could see all of God’s glory (1:18a), but it is fully revealed in Jesus (1:18b)
Craig S. Keener, The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament, Second Edition (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic: An Imprint of InterVarsity Press, 2014), 250.