Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on John 1:18
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible. Browse this work.
Read John 1. Compare commentaries on this chapter.
Source and publication rights
Public domain. Public Domain. Source edition.
Berean Blue opens December 1, 2026. Explore this passage in the app preview.
John1:18
18. No man--"No one," in the widest sense.
hath seen God--by immediate gaze, or direct intuition.
in the bosom of the Father--A remarkable expression, used only here, presupposing the Son's conscious existence distinct from the Father, and expressing His immediate and most endeared access to, and absolute acquaintance with, Him.
he--emphatic; As if he should say, "He and He only hath declared Him," because He only can.
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, John 1:18. Public domain.
Permanent link. Source edition.