It could also be a man namedJohn Mark, who traveled with Peter, and is believed to have written the Gospel of Mark . . . but John Mark wasn’t one of the Twelve, as the one whom Jesus loved seems to be (John 13:23, see alsoMatthew 26:20). Other positions argue John wasn’t ...
John 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of al
for that it was written to the Jews seems evident from1Jo 2:2. It was called, by some of the ancients, the epistle of John to the Parthians {b}; by whom must be meant not the natives of Parthia but the Jews professing to believe in Christ, who dwelt in that empire. We read of...
Periodically, worshippers would walk around the icons kissing each one in turn and then either kissing or running their prayer beads over the beaten silver surrounding the two gaps in the rock used by St John. At no time were all the people still. The priest spoke rapidly in a near whisper...
“who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.” John’s Vision of Christ 9I, John, your brother and companion in the suffering and kingdom and patient endurance that are ours in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus....
3Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near. Greetings and Doxology 4John, To the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from him who ...
In the beginning was the word,... That this is said not of the written word, but of the essential word of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, is clear, from all that is said from hence, toJohn 1:14as that this word was in the beginning, was with God, and is God; from the creation...
3Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and obey what is written in it, because the time is near.4John,To thesevenchurchesinthe province of Asia:Graceandpeaceto youfromHim whoisandwasandis to come,andfromthesevenSpiritsbeforeHisthron...
As for the time when, and place where, this epistle was written, it is not easy to say: some think it was written at Patmos, whither the apostle was banished in the reign of Domitian, and where he wrote the book of the Revelations; see Re 1:9; and here some say he wrote his ...