Verse of the Day
Author Spotlight
Loading featured author...
Report Issue
See a formatting issue or error?
Let us know →
Verse Takeaways
1
A Heartbreaking Homecoming
Scholars highlight a crucial distinction in the original Greek. Jesus came to "his own home" (referring to his land and temple) but "his own people" (the Jewish nation) rejected him. This wasn't a rejection by strangers, but a refusal of welcome from his own family, making it profoundly tragic and personal.
See 3 Verse Takeaways
Book Overview
John
Author
Audience
Composition
Teaching Highlights
Outline
+ 5 more
See Overview
Commentaries
10
Albert Barnes
On John 1:11
18th Century
Theologian
He came unto his own. His own land or country. It was called his land because it was the place of his birth, an…
AT Robertson
On John 1:11
Unto his own (εις τα ιδια). Neuter plural, "unto his own things," the very idiom used in 19:27 when the Beloved Disciple took the …
Charles Ellicott
On John 1:11
19th Century
Bishop
The phrase "He came," as distinct from the "was" of the previous verse, moves on to the historic advent. But since that advent was only the more di…
Go Ad-Free
Go ad-free and create your own bookmark library
Charles Spurgeon
On John 1:11–12
19th Century
Preacher
He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them …
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On John 1:11
In the phrase “he came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him,” the former “own” (neuter in Greek) refers to things; and the ph…
John Calvin
On John 1:11
16th Century
Theologian
He came into his own. Here is displayed the absolutely desperate wickedness and malice of men; here is displayed their execrable impiety, …
John Gill
On John 1:11
17th Century
Pastor
He came unto his own
Not all the world, who are his own by right of creation; for these, his own, are opposed to the…
Matthew Henry
On John 1:6–14
17th Century
Minister
John the Baptist came to bear witness concerning Jesus. Nothing more fully shows the darkness of human minds than the fact that when the Light had …