Hello Everyone,
John began his Gospel a little different than the rest of the Gospel writers. The rest started with the historical accounts of the events that took place.

· Matthew and Luke talked about circumstances leading to Jesus’ birth.
· Mark started off with Jesus entering into ministry, writing about a prophet John the Baptist who was preaching a message of repentance, preparing the people’s heart for the arrival of Jesus.
· JOHN talked about John the Baptist too, and the beginning of Jesus’ ministry. But before he launched into this, he took the first 14 verses to lay down clearly the theme of his book – Which is the Gospel message - that Jesus is the Son of God who came to save all man.At the end of his book, John said that he has seen all that Jesus has said and done.

He said, John 20:30 Jesus did many other miraculous signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book."
John 21:25 Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.
John 20:31 But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

In other words, I have written all that you need to know in order to be saved.John spent the first 14 verses of his book to paint us the entire picture of God’s salvation plan for mankind. Take time this Christmas Season to read and meditate on these first 14 verses of John 1.

All for Jesus
Phil