John 01 (review)

I have to apologize for stopping posting for so long. Now I would like to review and to carry on my subject that "How does Jesus reveal God?" in Gospel John.

In chapter 1, John addressed firstly the relationship between God and the world. The world are created by God, and the life comes from God (1-4). However, this relationship has split due to the sin, or the darkness (5). Though God would like to rebuild this relationship to provide the life to men (6-9), human beings are not all willing to receive his grace (10-11). Only those who are willing receive his grace will receive life, that is, born in spirit as the children of God (12-13).

Therefore, it is Jesus, the One and Only of God, brought this grace and truth among men and manifested God's glory before men (14-17). Through Jesus, God manifested His nature, that is, the grace and the Truth. Thus, the core argument of the Gospel John is Jesus's manifestation of the nature of God.

So in chapter 1, there are three groups of people who recognized Jesus's real identity, not in flesh but in spirit: a) John the Baptist, who identified Jesus as God's lamp, whose work is taking way the sin of the world (1:29) according to the indication of the descending holy spirit (1:33-34), and even he confirmed Jesus as the Son of God (34); b) Andrew and Peter, who identified Jesus as Messiah (1:41) because they heard of the testimony of their teacher, John the Baptist (1:35-37), and c) Philip and Nathanael, who identified Jesus as the one been referred in the books of prophets (1:45), the Son of God and the King of Israel (1:49).

For they receiving Jesus, they became the children of God and receive their newness of life - they became the voice in the desert (23), the rock of his people (42) and the prince of God, like Jacob (51). So, we can regard them as the models of salvation.