John 1:17

You know, God gave Moses the law a long time ago, so that our people could live God’s way, but Jesus Christ gave us God’s true message. He showed us that God loves us, even though we did nothing good for him.

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16That man is really good. And when he came, he was really good to us. He is like that. He is good to us all the time, even when we do nothing good for him.

18Nobody has ever seen God. But the special man, the one that is God, he is always with his father. He is the one that showed us what God is like.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:15The woman’s kids will hate you, and so will all their kids, and all the people that will be born later on. People will always be your enemies. And Snake, your kids will hate the woman’s kids, and so will all the snake mob that will be born later on. You snake mob will always be the people’s enemies. They will hit your heads, and you will bite their feet.”

Luke 1:54He feels sorry for his own people, us Israel mob, and he helps us,

Matthew Henry on John 1:16-19

John's Testimony to Christ. 15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. 16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. 18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. In these verses, I. The evangelist begins again to give us John Baptist's testimony… Read the whole commentary →

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