1 John 1:2
(And the life was made clear to us, and we have seen it and are witnessing to it and giving you word of that eternal life which was with the Father and was seen by us);
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John 1:1From the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was God.
John 1:18No man has seen God at any time; the only Son, who is on the breast of the Father, he has made clear what God is.
John 7:29I have knowledge of him because I came from him and he sent me.
John 11:25Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead;
John 15:27And you, in addition, will give witness because you have been with me from the first.
John 17:3And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.
Matthew Henry on 1 John 1:2-5
First John Though the continued tradition of the church attests that this epistle came from John the apostle, yet we may observe some other evidence that will confirm (or with some perhaps even outweigh) the certainty of that tradition. It should seem that the penman was one of the apostolical college by the sensible palpable assurance he had of the truth of the Mediator's person in his human nature: That which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled,… Read the whole commentary →