The Gospel of John, Life In God

The Gospel of John, Life In God

Let me say first, that as we proceed to look into these verses we step out of the realm of time, and back into eternity past. Hence we step out the realm of finite understanding. Yet God, through the apostle John has seen fit to give us a glimpse of the eternal, blissful fellowship of the Triune God. The great nineteenth-century Baptist, biblical expositor Alexander MacLaren expressed the wonder that should fill our minds as we read this portion of Scripture, “The Gospels begin with Bethlehem; John begins with ‘the bosom of the Father.’ Luke dates his narrative by Roman emperors and Jewish high priests; John dates him ‘in the beginning.’ To attempt an adequate exposition of these verses in our narrow limits is absurd; we can only note the salient points of this, the most profound page in the New Testament.”