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1 John 1:2

This Life was revealed to us; we saw it and give evidence about it. We are telling you about the one who is Eternal Life, who was with the Father, and who was revealed to us.

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In The King James Version

(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)

In Context

1This letter is about the Word of Life which existed from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our very own eyes and gazed upon, and which our hands have touched.

3What we have seen and heard we are now explaining to you, so that you may also share in this friendship together with us—this friendship that is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

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Cross References

John 1:1In the beginning the Word already was. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:18While no one has ever seen God, God the one and only, who is close beside the Father, has shown us what God is like.

John 7:29but I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me.”

John 11:25Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who trust in me will live, even though they die.

John 15:27You will also give evidence about me because you were with me from the beginning.”

John 17:3Eternal life is this: to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you sent.

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 →

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