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1: • 1 Inside of the beginning and source is the Word, and the Word is actively towards God, and God is the Word [a]. 2 That Word is inside of the beginning and source towards God. • 3 All through Him become, and without Him not even one thing becomes that has become. • 4 Inside of Him is life actively, and this life is the light of humans. 5 This light is made visible inside of the darkness, and the darkness does not seize hold of it.

6 There came a man sent from God named John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning the light, that all might believe through Him. 8 John was not the light, but a witness concerning the light. • 9 That Light is true, who gives light to every man entering into the world-cosmos. [b}

• 10 He is inside of the world-cosmos, and the world-cosmos becomes through him. Yet the world does not know Him. 11 He came to His own and His own did not seize hold of Him [c]. • 12 Yet many do receive to seize hold of Him, and to them He gives the authority and right to be sons birthed out from God, even to those believing into His name, • 13 those who are conceived not from blood nor out of the desire of flesh, nor out of the desire of man, but out from God.

• 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us and we looked upon His glory, glory as the One Seed-Kind [d] in the presence of the Father, full of grace and truth.

15 John testified concerning Him crying loudly, “This is He of whom I spoke, ‘The One coming after me has precedence over me, for He is before me.’ • 16 For out from His fullness, we have all already received grace even out from grace. • 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth become our reality [only] through Jesus Christ. • 18 No one has seen or looked upon God, ever, at any time. The One Seed-Kind of God, existing inside of the bosom of the Father, He has made [an invisible] God known [e].

19 This is the testimony of John, when the Judeans sent to him priests and Levites from Jerusalem, that they might ask him, “Who are you?” 20 John spoke the same word without contradiction, “I am not the Christ.” 21 Then they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” But he answered, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” But he answered, “No.” 22 They asked him again, “Who are you, that we might give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?” 23 John said, “I am a voice calling out in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord,’ as said Isaiah the prophet” (Isaiah 40:3).

24 Those sent were from the Pharisees; 25 they asked him, “Why, then, do you immerse people, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?” 26 John answered them, “I immerse people in water; but among you stands One whom you do not know. 27 This One comes after me, of whom I am not worthy even to untie the strap of His sandal.” 28 All this was taking place across the Jordan from Bethany, were John was immersing people.

29 The next day, John saw Jesus coming towards him. • He said, “Behold the Lamb of God, removing the sin of the world-cosmos.” 30 For His sake I said, “After me comes a man who has precedence over me, for He is before me. 31 I did not know Him, but I came to immerse people in water so that He might be made visible and known to Israel. • 32 And John testified, “I have beheld the Spirit descending as a dove out of the sky and abiding upon Him. 33 I did not know Him, but the One who sent me to immerse people in water, He said to me, ‘The One upon whom you see the Spirit descending and abiding upon Him, He is the One immersing people inside of the Devoted Spirit.’ 34 And I have seen and testified that this Man is the Son out from God.”

35 On the next day again, John was standing with two of his disciples [f]. 36 And having seen Jesus walking, he said, “Look and see the Lamb of God!” • 36 Those two disciples heard him speaking and followed Jesus. 37 Jesus turned to see them following. He said to them, “What do you seek?” They said to Him, “Rabbi (which is to say in translation, ‘Teacher’),where do you dwell?” • 39 He said to them, “Come and see [g].”

So they went around the tenth hour, and saw where He abode and stayed with Him that day.. 40 Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who had heard John and followed Jesus, 41 Right away, Andrew found his brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah (which is translated ‘Christ’).” 42 Andrew led Simon to Jesus. When Jesus saw him, He, said, “You are Simon, the son of John; you will be called Cephas, (which means ‘Rock’ [that is, Peter]).”

43 On the next day, Jesus wanted to go into Galilee where He found Philip. Jesus said to him, “Follow Me.” 44 This was the Philip from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. 45 Philip then found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found Him of whom Moses wrote in the law and the prophets, Jesus son of Joseph, who is from Nazareth. 46 But Nathanael said to him, “Is anything good able to come from Nazareth? Philip answered him, “Come and see.”

47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming towards Him, and He said concerning him, “Behold, a true Israelite, in whom is no deceit.” 48 Nathanael asked Him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Phillip spoke to you, I saw you under the fig tree.” 49 Nathanael answered Him, “Teacher, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.” 50 Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? Greater things than these you will see.” 51 And He said to him, “Let it be so, it is so, as I say to you, you will see the heavens opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.”

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Gospel Comments	Notes
• Definition: In His opening lines, John shows the relationship between the Father, the Son, and all created things. God is Word – and Spirit (see John 4:24) – in His essence and being, a vast Story of Words, an infinite number of sets of Words each containing an infinite number of Words, existing in a Spirit Self-awareness. All God-Words are Spirit and Life inside Himself; they are the Pro-Knowing of God. God as Word, then, exists completely distinct from anything created. • Definition: When God speaks that Word, however, the Word becomes Son and Spirit flowing into what is created. Everything created becomes through the Flow of Word and Spirit, that is, Christ Jesus, who brings forth, carries, and sustains all in every ongoing moment through His Power-filled Word, the good-speaking of Jesus (see Hebrews 1:1-3). • Life: John’s gospel is a gospel of Life. There is one definition of Life in the Bible, John 17:3. Life – Know the Father through knowing Jesus Sent into you. – Know that Jesus is inside of the Father and you inside of Him and He inside of you. – Stay inside of Jesus. Thus everything John now writes about Jesus shows us our own LIFE with God inside of Him. • Definition: The good Words Jesus speaks are True inside of God and inside of us. Light is consciousness – and honesty. Light causes us to know our story of self – and, that it is the Lord Jesus as living Spirit Word written upon our hearts. • Ruling Verse 4: The first words of the accuser drove a sideshow into the human heart against those God-Words. – I create my own story of self separate from God. I am my own person. I can even use Bible words under my control to define myself, if I wish. – And thus darkness refuses the Light. • Ruling Verse 7: When Jesus, the One who causes and sustains us every moment, shows up in our lives, present and real, the thing that PLEASES God is that we “receive” Him, except to receive actually means to AGRRESIVELY SEIZE hold of Him as our life, as our Story, as our existence, as our OWN. • Definition: Just because Jesus walked this earth entirely in human form does not mean that creation was not being sustained through His power-filled Word every moment. The One speaking us out from God stood in front of us and we would not know Him. As Jesus said, “They hated Me for no reason whatsoever” (John 15:25). • Definition: To receive requires deliberate action on the part of the receiver, but it is another Person whom we receive. Thus once received, Jesus is the One who causes us to know Him. • Covenant: Central to the Covenant God entered into with us, we possess the right in full to be a son birthed out from God. This is a right that we assert inside of God to full measure. • Life: All created things are sustained every moment by the good-speaking of Jesus, yet entirely without their knowledge. John asserts that, in being a son conceived of God, something much more happens inside of us. This something is knowing Jesus Sent into us (see John 17:3), similar to being conceived in the natural, yet not the same, for we are conceived of God. • Definition: We define everything, God, Salvation, and ourselves, through our definition of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus is Word spoken, speaking us. Just as we become through His power-filled Word, so Jesus Himself came in Person in the same way, Word becoming flesh, that is, a visible outward form inside creation. • Definition: Glory is the end result of purpose. The Jesus we could now see outwardly remained in the presence of God, the monogenes and the prototokos (see Romans 8:29), the only Seed by which we are conceived of God and the first One of many brethren just like Himself. Jesus defines us. • Definition: Grace is a shared Life with God, and Truth is honesty. Jesus can do nothing of Himself; He is not the Source. Everything coming through Jesus comes out from God the Father. God is the One coming through Jesus as Spirit Word. John assumes a Symmorphic God in all that he writes. • Definition: We who have actively received Jesus Sent into us have received the same Life shared with God that Jesus enjoys, the same knowing of the Father, out from all that Jesus is. • Definition: Grace and Truth, that is, no sufficiency in self but all sufficiency in a shared Life with God, cannot enter into us through Law, through word on the outside under human control, but only as Jesus entering into our hearts. • Covenant: God is invisible and cannot be known as Himself by any created thing. Yet God’s Desire is to be known by all, for knowing God alone is Life. Jesus makes an invisible God visible and known in human form. “He who sees Me sees the Father” (John 14:9). Yet this same Jesus remains always inside the bosom of the Father AND inside our hearts as the Flow of Gospel Word, the Covenant, between God and us, causing God to become visible through our love for one another. • Definition: The Lamb is the One who gives Himself for others as the propitiation, the elimination of all sin and disconnection from God. The Dove, the only visible form given to the Spirit, means the all-envelopment of God, gentle and kind, the one who hovers over for the entrance of Word. These two are ALWAYS together, Word and Spirit, Son and Devotion. • Ruling Verse 6: Jesus walking as the Lamb, as the One who gives Himself for God and for us, is our WAY into the knowledge of God. We follow Him in that same giving. • The Form for God through Jesus: “Come and see” where Jesus dwells. Jesus dwells inside His Church, which is His Body, the fulness of Christ who fills all inside of all (Ephesians 1:23).

Gospel Comments

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• Definition: In His opening lines, John shows the relationship between the Father, the Son, and all created things. God is Word – and Spirit (see John 4:24) – in His essence and being, a vast Story of Words, an infinite number of sets of Words each containing an infinite number of Words, existing in a Spirit Self-awareness. All God-Words are Spirit and Life inside Himself; they are the Pro-Knowing of God. God as Word, then, exists completely distinct from anything created.

• Definition: When God speaks that Word, however, the Word becomes Son and Spirit flowing into what is created. Everything created becomes through the Flow of Word and Spirit, that is, Christ Jesus, who brings forth, carries, and sustains all in every ongoing moment through His Power-filled Word, the good-speaking of Jesus (see Hebrews 1:1-3).

• Life: John’s gospel is a gospel of Life. There is one definition of Life in the Bible, John 17:3. Life – Know the Father through knowing Jesus Sent into you. – Know that Jesus is inside of the Father and you inside of Him and He inside of you. – Stay inside of Jesus. Thus everything John now writes about Jesus shows us our own LIFE with God inside of Him.

• Definition: The good Words Jesus speaks are True inside of God and inside of us. Light is consciousness – and honesty. Light causes us to know our story of self – and, that it is the Lord Jesus as living Spirit Word written upon our hearts.

• Ruling Verse 4: The first words of the accuser drove a sideshow into the human heart against those God-Words. – I create my own story of self separate from God. I am my own person. I can even use Bible words under my control to define myself, if I wish. – And thus darkness refuses the Light.

• Ruling Verse 7: When Jesus, the One who causes and sustains us every moment, shows up in our lives, present and real, the thing that PLEASES God is that we “receive” Him, except to receive actually means to AGRRESIVELY SEIZE hold of Him as our life, as our Story, as our existence, as our OWN.

• Definition: Just because Jesus walked this earth entirely in human form does not mean that creation was not being sustained through His power-filled Word every moment. The One speaking us out from God stood in front of us and we would not know Him. As Jesus said, “They hated Me for no reason whatsoever” (John 15:25).

• Definition: To receive requires deliberate action on the part of the receiver, but it is another Person whom we receive. Thus once received, Jesus is the One who causes us to know Him.

• Covenant: Central to the Covenant God entered into with us, we possess the right in full to be a son birthed out from God. This is a right that we assert inside of God to full measure.

• Life: All created things are sustained every moment by the good-speaking of Jesus, yet entirely without their knowledge. John asserts that, in being a son conceived of God, something much more happens inside of us. This something is knowing Jesus Sent into us (see John 17:3), similar to being conceived in the natural, yet not the same, for we are conceived of God.

• Definition: We define everything, God, Salvation, and ourselves, through our definition of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus is Word spoken, speaking us. Just as we become through His power-filled Word, so Jesus Himself came in Person in the same way, Word becoming flesh, that is, a visible outward form inside creation.

• Definition: Glory is the end result of purpose. The Jesus we could now see outwardly remained in the presence of God, the monogenes and the prototokos (see Romans 8:29), the only Seed by which we are conceived of God and the first One of many brethren just like Himself. Jesus defines us.

• Definition: Grace is a shared Life with God, and Truth is honesty. Jesus can do nothing of Himself; He is not the Source. Everything coming through Jesus comes out from God the Father. God is the One coming through Jesus as Spirit Word. John assumes a Symmorphic God in all that he writes.

• Definition: We who have actively received Jesus Sent into us have received the same Life shared with God that Jesus enjoys, the same knowing of the Father, out from all that Jesus is.

• Definition: Grace and Truth, that is, no sufficiency in self but all sufficiency in a shared Life with God, cannot enter into us through Law, through word on the outside under human control, but only as Jesus entering into our hearts.

• Covenant: God is invisible and cannot be known as Himself by any created thing. Yet God’s Desire is to be known by all, for knowing God alone is Life. Jesus makes an invisible God visible and known in human form. “He who sees Me sees the Father” (John 14:9). Yet this same Jesus remains always inside the bosom of the Father AND inside our hearts as the Flow of Gospel Word, the Covenant, between God and us, causing God to become visible through our love for one another.

• Definition: The Lamb is the One who gives Himself for others as the propitiation, the elimination of all sin and disconnection from God. The Dove, the only visible form given to the Spirit, means the all-envelopment of God, gentle and kind, the one who hovers over for the entrance of Word. These two are ALWAYS together, Word and Spirit, Son and Devotion.

• Ruling Verse 6: Jesus walking as the Lamb, as the One who gives Himself for God and for us, is our WAY into the knowledge of God. We follow Him in that same giving.

• The Form for God through Jesus: “Come and see” where Jesus dwells. Jesus dwells inside His Church, which is His Body, the fulness of Christ who fills all inside of all (Ephesians 1:23).

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