1 John 1:2

This life was revealed; we have seen it, and we testify and declare to you the eternal life that was with the Father and that was revealed to us.

Text-Critical English NT

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

1We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life.

3What we have seen and heard we declare to you, so that you also may have fellowship with us, and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

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Cross References

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

John 1:18No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is at the Father's side, has made him known.

John 7:29but I know him, because I have come from him, and he is the one who sent me.”

John 11:25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he may die, yet shall he live.

John 15:27You must also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

John 17:3This is eternal life, that they may know yoʋ, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom yoʋ have 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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