John 1:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

John 1:17 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 6:14
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Romans 3:19-26
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. …
John 1:14
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Romans 5:20-21
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15-18)

In these verses, I. The evangelist begins again to give us John Baptist’s testimony concerning Christ, John 1:15. He had said (John 1:8) that he came for a witness; now here he tells us that he did accordingly bear witness. Here, Observe, 1. How he expressed his testimony: He cried, according to the prediction that he should be the voice of one crying. The Old-Testament prophets cried aloud, to sh…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. For, &c.--The Law elicits the consciousness of sin and the need of redemption; it only typifies the reality. The Gospel, on the contrary, actually communicates reality and power from above (compare Ro 6:14). Hence Paul terms the Old Testament “shadow,” while he calls the New Testament “substance” (Col 2:17) [Olshausen].