John 1:1 (BSB)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Commentary on John 1:1
- John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on John 1:1: 1. In the beginning was the Speech. In this introduction he asserts the eternal Divinity of Christ, in order to inform us that he is the eternal God, who was manifested in the flesh, (1 Timothy 3:16.) The design is, to show it to have been necessary that the restoration of mankind should be accomplished by the Son of God, since by his power all...
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on John 1:1-5: Austin says (de Civitate Dei, lib. 10, cap. 29) that his friend Simplicius told him he had heard a Platonic philosopher say that these first verses of St. John's gospel were worthy to be written in letters of gold. The learned Francis Junius, in the account he gives of his own life, tells how he was in his youth infected with loose notions in religion...
- Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on John 1:1: PREFACE TO THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN. John, the writer of this Gospel, was the son of Zebedee and Salome; compare with . His father was a fisherman of Galilee, though it would appear that he was not destitute of property, and was not in the lowest condition of life. He had hired men in his employ, .
- William Burkitt (Anglican), Expository Notes on the New Testament on John 1:1: Observe here, 1. The person spoken of, Jesus Christ, under the name of the Word. In the beginning was the Word. Because God spake to us by him, and makes known his will to us by Christ, as we make known our minds to one another by our words.