17For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
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For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
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. …
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.
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: …
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, t…
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