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  EXPOSITORY THOUGHTS ON JOHN - JOHN 1:1-5
  by J.C. Ryle
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The Gospel of St John, which begins with these verses, is in many
respects very unlike the other three Gospels. It contains many things
which they omit. It omits many things which they contain. Good reason
might easily be shown for this unlikeness. But is enough to remember
that Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John wrote under the direct inspiration of
God. In the general plan of their respective Gospels, and in the
particular details, in everything that they record, and in everything
that they do not record, they were all four equally and entirely guided
by the Holy Ghost.

About the matters which St John was specially inspired to relate in his
Gospel, one general remark will suffice. The things which are peculiar
to his Gospel are among the most precious possessions of the Church of
Christ. No one of the four Gospel-writers has given us such full
statements about the divinity of Christ, about justification by faith,
about the offices of Christ, about the work of the Holy Spirit, -and
about the privileges of believers, as we read in the pages of St. John.
On none of these great subjects, undoubtedly, have Matthew, Mark, and
Luke been silent. But in St John\\

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