A Short Reflection on John 1:18

Hello again peoples. Earlier today I shared a blog post with the opening to John 1; in my opinion one of the most rich and wonderful passages in the whole of Scripture. Actually, as I was typing out the passage, I paused at verse 18 and reread it a few times, and I really absorbed the meaning of the verse like never before.

I have a Christian friend called Susan, to whom I occasionally send WhatsApp audio messages. She has been quite sick and has poor eyesight, so I send her short recordings of reflections on Scripture if I think they would be useful to her. I thought I’d share with you the 4-minute recording I sent her today about John 1:18, in case anyone following this blog finds it useful.

I don’t pretend to be fully proficient in every aspect of Biblical teaching, so I do hope I have been faithful in this recording to God’s intended meaning of the verse. You can correct me in the comments if you feel you need to, and if it comes to light that I’ve made a terrible blunder I will delete this post. I pray that the teaching would communicate to you only what is sound and truthful.

In the footnotes to Verse 18, the ESV does indicate that the phrase ‘the only God’ is sometimes translated as ‘the only One, who is God’ or ‘the only Son’, but I feel in whichever of these ways the phrase is translated, this verse still makes a striking statement about the deity of Christ and the relationship between Father and Son.