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This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood.
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Most commentators agree that 'water' refers to Jesus' baptism and 'blood' to his crucifixion. John emphasizes that the same person, Jesus Christ, experienced both the glorious start of his ministry (baptism) and its sacrificial end (the cross). This counters early heresies that tried to separate the divine Christ from the suffering, human Jesus, affirming that our Savior was fully human and truly died for us.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
This is he. This Son of God is referred to in the previous verse. The apostle's object in this verse, in connection with [Reference 1 John…
This (ουτος). Jesus the Son of God (verse 5).
He that came (ο ελθων). Second aorist active articular parti…
19th Century
Anglican
FAITH THE TEST OF LOVE (1 John 5:1–12)
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Baptist
This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ, not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witnes…
(6a) Jesus, the Son of God (v.5) and the Christ (v.1), came not just by water, but “by water and blood.” This enigmatic statement has given rise in…
16th Century
Protestant
This is he that came. So that our faith may rest safely on Christ, he says that the real substance of the shadows of the law appears in hi…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
This is he that came by water and blood, [even] Jesus Christ , &c.] By "water" is not meant the ablutions or washing…
We are inwardly and outwardly defiled; inwardly, by the power and pollution of sin in our nature. For our cleansing, there is in and by Christ Jesu…
