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John 1:17 Cross-References
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“For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.”
John 1:17 (KJV)
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Commentary on John 1:17
The contrast between Moses and Christ is explicit: 'the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.' The law was 'given' (edothe, passive voice)—Moses was merely an instrument. Grace and truth 'came' (egeneto)—came into being, arrived personally in Christ. The law was good, holy, and revealed God's will, but it couldn't save. Christ brings what the law pointed toward: redemptive grace and ultimate truth. This is not antithesis but fulfillment—the shadow gives way to substance.
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Cross-References for John 1:17
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“but under grace.”
“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.,Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.,,,,,,,,”
“it speaks to those who are under the law”
“that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded”
“and lived among us. We saw his glory”
“nearly everything is cleansed with blood”
“and the truth will make you free.{Psalm 119:45},And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.,,,,,,,,”
“and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?,Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?,,,,,,,,”
“written engraved on stones”
“for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken”