http://andrewrozalowsky.github.io//2012/03/31/john-15-9-why-john-the-baptist-came/ studies in the bible Tue, 07 Jan 2014 08:05:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8 http://andrewrozalowsky.github.io//2012/03/31/john-15-9-why-john-the-baptist-came/#comment-33 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:09:54 +0000 http://andrewrozalowsky.wordpress.com/?p=265#comment-33 [...] Verses 6-8 talked about John the Baptist’s witness to the light and now in verse 9 the light is made the subject again. Here the text also qualifies the light as the true light. Jesus is said to be true in the sense of ‘ultimate.’ Whatever one thought of ‘light’ in the first place, this here is the true light (cf. Carson, Gospel of John, 122; Ladd, A Theology of the New Testament, 166). And this true light, which gives light to all people, was coming into the world. [...]

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