John 1:14-18

John 1:14-18 says " The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father full of grace and truth. John testifies concerning Him. He cries out saying 'He who comes after me has surpassed me because of what He was before me.'" From the fullness of grace we have all recieved one blessing after another. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father's side, has made Him known.

The repeated words in the passage include the "One and Only." These verses are saying that God is the one and only person who we should worship and trust.

The actions in these verses are "Full of" the sentence "He came full of grace and truth" is telliing us that Jesus Christ came to earth to die for our sins and rise on the third day. If Jesus only came with truth, He might have only pointed out our own sins. Instead, He chose to forgive us and died on the cross and rose again on the third day so that if we accept Him as our Lord and Savior, as well as believe He died for our sins, we can be with Him eternally after we die on earth.

Another action mentioned in John 1:14-18, is "He came from the Father." This is telling us that God sent Jesus, is one and only son to save us from our sins. This verse is also telling us that Jesus Christ was God's servant in everything He did.

This passage says that God had so much mercy that He was willing to send His son to die on the cross and rise on the third day so that if we "Believe in Him we may not perish, but have eternal life." (John 3"16)

This verse says that man can be saved from death by believing in Jesus' death and resurrection, and by accepting Him as our Lord and Savior.

The promise found in John 1:14-18 is that "He came from the Father full of grace and truth." As mentioned before, Jesus Christ came filled with grace so that we could believe in the death and resurrection, and be saved. If He only came with truth, there might not have been a death and resurrection. But since He came full of grace, we can be saved.

Verse 15 teaches that Jesus was with God even before John was born. John is acknowledging that Christ was before Him by saying that "He who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me."

The similarity of verse 14 and 17 is that the "Law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ," while verse 14 says "The Word became flesh and has made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father full of grace and truth." These two verses are refering to God by refering Him to the Word and the Law.

Jesus is called in verse 18, God.

God became flesh through Jesus Christ so that we can believe that He died for our sins and rose again on the third day so that we could be saved.

This passage is designed to teach people that Jesus came full of grace and through that grace, He died and rose again for our sins.

God is telling me in this passage that we are saved through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ,and that we can have eternal life with Him as well as when we acknowledge Him as our Lord and Savior. (I am also stregthened and encouraged by this)