Bible Strands
Day 1: The Word became flesh
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Notice
- By the end of verse 14, who is "the Word"? Follow how the chapter gets you there without ever saying the name.
- Count the things John the Baptist says he is not. What is the one thing he says he is?
- "We have seen His glory" — what does that one word, we, tell you about who is writing and what they are claiming?
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The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.John 1:14
The sentence the whole Gospel rests on, and the one with the most threads running out of it.
Read together with:
- 1 John 4:9 131 votes
- 1 Timothy 3:16 101 votes
- Galatians 4:4 81 votes
- John 1:1 80 votes
Nearest in meaning: Hebrews 1:3
The verb behind "made His dwelling among us" is used in five verses in the whole New Testament: this one, and four in Revelation. The last of them is Revelation 21:3, where God dwells with humanity for good. The Gospel's first claim and the Bible's last promise use the same word.
Hebrews 1:3 arrives twice over — it is the nearest verse in meaning to John 1:14, and a cross-reference as well. Two different kinds of thread, drawn from two different sources, landing on the same verse.
Keep
He moved in. Not visited, not appeared — moved in, and stayed. What does that change about today?
Tomorrow: the first sign, at a wedding.
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