Charles Spurgeon Commentary John 1:6

"There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John." — John 1:6 (ASV)

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

How very different is the style of this verse from the one that precedes it!

How grand, how sublime, are the Evangelist's words when he speaks of Jesus! How truly human he becomes, how he dips his pen in ordinary ink, when he writes: There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. Yet that was a noble testimony to the herald of Christ. John the Baptist was a man sent from God.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

What a descent it is from The Word of God to the man sent from God, whose name was John! Jesus himself said concerning John, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist; yet, from the greatest of prophets, what a climb it is to get up to Jesus Christ, the Son of God! There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.