Our first bible study meeting

Friday night went pretty well. Since we really didn't have all that much to read the discussion was short but good. Basically, the first 18 verses of John are a prologue. John declairs the deity of Jesus and shows that He was there durring creation (1:1-5).

Next in verses 6-8 we are told about John the Baptist and shown how that John was sent by God to give testimony about Christ. In 9-10 we are told that Christ is the true or real Light and that He is the one who gives man the light of reason and concience. But in spite of this the world rejected Him. Verse 11 tells us that while Christ came to his own people they rejected him. Then in verse 12 John reveils that even thogh Christ was rejected God has made it so that if we receive and belive (both concepts of salvation) in Christ that we will become "sons of God".
Next, in verse 13, we are shown that the spiritual birth spoken of in verse 12 if not of man but is of God. This is akin to being saying one is "born again" or a "born again Christian". Verses 12 thru 13 really show that by received and believing in Christ we become a new person in Christ or are born again. In verse 14 we are now to the point where John declairs that the Word had been made flesh and that the glory of the Father was seen in the Son.

The rest of the prologue has to do with John the Baptist testifing about Jesus. In verse 15 he proclames that "He who comes after me as surpassed me because he was before me". Here he is stating that Jesus has always been or that he existed in eternity. Verse 16 shows that we share in that grace spoken of in verse 14 . In verse 17 we are told how that while the law of God was given through Moses, Jesus has come to fulfill the law through grace. Finally in verse 18 we are told that untill now no one has truly seen God and that now we can truely see Him through His son Jesus.



*Sources that I used to do this write up were: NIV Study Bible, Liberty Bible Commentary, and the commentary from Biblegateway.com.