Biblical Concept: Word, Words, in the Gospel of John

Prologue

Psalm 138:2 I will bow down toward Thy holy temple, And give thanks to Thy name for Thy lovingkindness and Thy truth; For Thou hast magnified Thy word according to all Thy name. (Underline is mine)

Findings

Word before anything began.

Word and God inseparable.

Word and God equivalent.

Maximum emphasis on God’s words!

Maximum emphasis on God’s scrolls!

Maximum emphasis on the 66 Books!

“Word Itself became flesh.” (Became employs an indicative aorist middle inflection. The middle voice

notes that the Word itself became flesh. Jesus did it Himself.)

Relationship: Scripture, word, Jesus, spoke.

Samaritans believed, word of the woman, re Jesus.

⁴¹ And many more believed because of His word;

“The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him” re his son.

“he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life”

Word, eternal life, relationship. (Quite a plan.)

“you do not have His word abiding in you”

“If you abide in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine”

Religious Abraham's offspring: “My word has no place in you.”

Re religious Jews: “you cannot hear My word”

⁵¹ "Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he shall never see death."

Word over death. (Quite a spiritual plan.)

Jesus: “I do know Him, and keep His word”

“that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled”

Jesus: “the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day”

Jesus: “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word”

“He who does not love Me does not keep My words”

“the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father's who sent Me”

John 15:3 "You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

Jesus: “if they kept My word, they will keep yours also”

“the word may be fulfilled that is written in their Law” … “They hated Me without a cause.”

“the men whom Thou gavest Me” … ”they have kept Thy word”

Jesus: “I have given them Thy word; and the world has hated them”

“Thy word is truth”

“but for those also who believe in Me through their word”

“word might be fulfilled” … “I lost not one.”

“the word of Jesus might be fulfilled” … “death He was about to die”

“He whom God has sent speaks the words of God”

John 5:47 "But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?"

“the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life”

Peter re Jesus: “You have words of eternal life.”

Multitude: “when they heard these words, were saying, "This certainly is the Prophet.”

Jesus: “These words He spoke in the treasury”

“He who is of God hears the words of God”

John 10:19 There arose a division again among the Jews because of these words.

Division, Jews, because of these words.

Jesus re the Father: “The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative”

“He who does not love Me does not keep My words”

“the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father's who sent Me”

John 15:7 "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be done for you.”

“the words which Thou gavest Me I have given to them”

“Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out”

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Word

^NAS John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (Word before anything began.) (Word and God inseparable.) (Word and God equivalent.) (Maximum emphasis on God’s words!) (Maximum emphasis on God’s scrolls!) (Maximum emphasis on the 66 Books!)

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. (“Word Itself became flesh.”) (Became employs an indicative aorist middle inflection. The middle voice notes that the Word itself became flesh. Jesus did it Himself.)

^NAS John 2:22 When therefore He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had spoken. (Relationship: Scripture, word, Jesus, spoke.)

^NAS John 4:39 And from that city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, "He told me all the things that I have done." (Samaritans believed, word of the woman, re Jesus.)

⁴¹ And many more believed because of His word; (All)

⁵⁰ Jesus said to him, "Go your way; your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he started off. (“The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him” re his son.)

^NAS John 5:24 "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. (“he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life”) (Word, eternal life, relationship. Quite a plan.)

³⁸ "And you do not have His word abiding in you, for you do not believe Him whom He sent. (“you do not have His word abiding in you”)

^NAS John 8:31 Jesus therefore was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, "If you abide in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; (“If you abide in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine”)

³⁷ "I know that you are Abraham's offspring; yet you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you. (Religious Abraham's offspring: “My word has no place in you.”)

⁴³ "Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word. (Re religious Jews: “you cannot hear My word”)

⁵¹ "Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he shall never see death." (All) (Word over death.) (Quite a spiritual plan.)

⁵² The Jews said to Him, "Now we know that You have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets also; and You say, 'If anyone keeps My word, he shall never taste of death.' (Word over death.)

⁵⁵ and you have not come to know Him, but I know Him; and if I say that I do not know Him, I shall be a liar like you, but I do know Him, and keep His word. (Jesus: “I do know Him, and keep His word”)

^NAS John 10:35 "If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

^NAS John 12:38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, "LORD, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?" (“that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled”)

⁴⁸ "He who rejects Me, and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day. (Jesus: “the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day”)

^NAS John 14:23 Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him, and make Our abode with him. (Jesus: “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word”)

²⁴ "He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father's who sent Me. (“He who does not love Me does not keep My words”) (“the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father's who sent Me”)

^NAS John 15:3 "You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. (All)

²⁰ "Remember the word that I said to you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also. (Jesus: “if they kept My word, they will keep yours also”)

²⁵ "But they have done this in order that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their Law, 'They hated Me without a cause.' (“the word may be fulfilled that is written in their Law” … “They hated Me without a cause.”)

^NAS John 17:6 "I manifested Thy name to the men whom Thou gavest Me out of the world; Thine they were, and Thou gavest them to Me, and they have kept Thy word. (“the men whom Thou gavest Me” … ‘”they have kept Thy word”)

¹⁴ "I have given them Thy word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. (Jesus: “I have given them Thy word; and the world has hated them”)

¹⁷ "Sanctify them in the truth; Thy word is truth. (“Thy word is truth”)

²⁰ "I do not ask in behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; (“but for those also who believe in Me through their word”)

^NAS John 18:9 that the word might be fulfilled which He spoke, "Of those whom Thou hast given Me I lost not one." (“word might be fulfilled” … “I lost not one.”)

³² that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which He spoke, signifying by what kind of death He was about to die. (“the word of Jesus might be fulfilled” … “death He was about to die”)

Words

^NAS John 3:34 "For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for He gives the Spirit without measure. (“He whom God has sent speaks the words of God”)

^NAS John 5:47 "But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?" (All)

^NAS John 6:63 "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. (“the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life”)

⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life. (Peter re Jesus: “”You have words of eternal life.)

^NAS John 7:40 Some of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, were saying, "This certainly is the Prophet." (Multitude: “when they heard these words, were saying, "This certainly is the Prophet.”)

^NAS John 8:20 These words He spoke in the treasury, as He taught in the temple; and no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come. (Jesus: “These words He spoke in the treasury”)

⁴⁷ "He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God." (“He who is of God hears the words of God”)

^NAS John 10:19 There arose a division again among the Jews because of these words. (All) (Division, Jews, because of these words)

^NAS John 14:10 "Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works. (Jesus re the Father: “The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative”)

²⁴ "He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father's who sent Me. (“He who does not love Me does not keep My words”) (“the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father's who sent Me”)

^NAS John 15:7 "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be done for you. (All)

^NAS John 17:8 for the words which Thou gavest Me I have given to them; and they received them, and truly understood that I came forth from Thee, and they believed that Thou didst send Me. (“the words which Thou gavest Me I have given to them”)

^NAS John 18:1 When Jesus had spoken these words, He went forth with His disciples over the ravine of the Kidron, where there was a garden, into which He Himself entered, and His disciples.

^NAS John 19:13 When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha. (“Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out”)

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