Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of John [Annotated, Updated]: A Commentary

by J.C. Ryle

If no one less than the Eternal God, the Creator and Preserver of all things, could take away the sin of the world, sin must be a far more abominable thing in the sight of God than most men suppose.

His love is offered to all men freely, fully, honestly, and unreservedly, but it is only through the one channel of Christ’s redemption.

We can never have too high thoughts about Christ, can never love Him too much, trust Him too implicitly, lay too much weight upon Him, and speak too highly in His praise. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him. He will be all in heaven. Let us see to it, that He is all in our hearts on earth.

What Christ has said, He is able to do; and what He has undertaken, He will never fail to make good.

Practice, in short, is the very life of religion. “To him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin” (James 4:17).