The Prologue (John 1:1-18) (3)

This is the third Lord’s Day in our study of the Gospel According to John. We are presently working through John’s Prologue, which is contained in verses 1 through 18. As we have already noted, John’s purpose in his prologue was to establish at the outset of his Gospel that the invisible God was working within history through His Word to save His people from their sin. We now arrive to verse 10, in which we read of the Word Himself having come into the world, but no one in the world knew Him or received Him for who He was. Even His own people, the Jews, did not receive Him (1:11). But some did receive Him, according to verses 12 and 13, but they did so only due to the grace of God causing them to be born anew spiritually, which enabled them to see and believe, and, thereby, enabled to become the children of God.