From 6d1afafd51856b7bb2d94e8ebfb74a6023b9bdc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lyle Mantooth Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 08:14:29 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] John 1:14-18 --- content/bible_journal/john/1:14-18.md | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/bible_journal/john/1:14-18.md diff --git a/content/bible_journal/john/1:14-18.md b/content/bible_journal/john/1:14-18.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bf07c95 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/bible_journal/john/1:14-18.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ ++++ +title = "John 1:14–18" +date = "2025-11-09" ++++ + +### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/John1.14-18) + +With the identity of the Word well-established, John drops a bomb. +"The Word became flesh and dwelt among us…" +It was a common belief in the first century that spirit and flesh were diametrically opposed, representing good and evil, respectively. +The Greek myths are rife with incidents of the gods disguising themselves as mortals and affecting people's lives with their interactions, but for one of them to become a human, permanently, and still remain divine would have been a radical concept. +For the Jewish mindset, accepting this idea would be even harder because God is shown to be so holy and transcendant in the Old Testament. +And yet the Creator of the universe, the Almighty, laid aside His divine prerogatives and became one of His own creatures. +Not only became one, but lived among them. +"Dwelt" has the connotation of "pitched his tent", which points to the temporary nature of the Word's earthly location. +It also recalls the tabernacle that God used when He dwelt with Israel as they wandered in the wilderness and established themselves in the Promised Land. +God's glory was visible to the people on the mountain, in the tabernacle, and in the temple. +It was also visible when Jesus was transfigured and talked with Moses and Elijah, but it may be that John is talking about Jesus's ministry or resurrection here. + +John connects the glory of God to the grace believers receive from Jesus. +The Son (i.e., the Word) has the same glory as the Father, being full of grace and truth, and from that fullness we receive grace upon grace. +Like Paul in his letter to the Romans, John contrasts grace with the law given to Moses, though he only discusses grace in this passage. +What grace does he refer to? +The gift of seeing and knowing God through Jesus Christ. +The Word who is God has been made visible, present, and relatable to the finite creatures He loves. + +* * * + +You reached down to us because we could never reach You in any manner or capacity.