2 The Divine Jesus
Jehovah-Jesus: John 1:1-18. the intimacy of John, John 13:23. 19:26. 20:2. 21:7, 20. “with Jesus,” John 18:15.—John writes of Jesus— when he wrote—getting the range—his literary style—the beginning—the Word—this was Jesus—the tragic tone.
God’s Spokesman: the Creator was Jehovah— Jehovah is Jesus—the Spokesman—Old Testament revelations, Adam, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, the elders of Israel, Isaiah, Ezekiel,—Whom these saw—various ways of speaking—John’s Gospel a battlefield—finding the Man. Whom Moses Saw: Jesus’ own standpoint—“down from heaven,” John 3:13, 31. 6:38. 8:42. would go back again, John 6:62. John 16:5, 10. 13:1. come on an errand, then going back, John 16:28 13:3. He only had seen the Father, John 6:46. only begotten Son, John 3:16, 18. His own Father, John 5:17, 18. 10:32-33. 19:7.—Jesus’ answer to Jews’ objection, John 5:19-47.—“He wrote of Me,” the true meaning—I and the Father one, John 10:30.—the Father in Me, John 10:38. the name Father in Old Testament, 2 Samuel 7:14. 1 Chronicles 17:13. 22:10. Psalm 68:5. 89:26. 103:13. Isaiah 63:16. 64:8. Jeremiah 3:4, 19. Malachi 3:17.—Jehovah the common name—trace Jesus’ use of Father about 180 times—manna, John 6:32.
Jesus is God Wooing Man: “Abraham—saw and was glad,” John 8:33-59—supposed meanings—natural meaning—“I am”—Jesus is Jehovah come Himself to woo man.