| Having said that “in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,” John now tells us that “the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.” Then he says parenthetically that “we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father.” This statement could only be made by John, his brother James, and Peter, who had been with the Lord Jesus on the mount of transfiguration, when He “was transfigured before them: and His face did shine as the sun, and His raiment was white as the light.” Peter wrote about it years later, that “we … were eyewitnesses of His majesty,” and that they heard the Father’s “voice to Him from the excellent glory, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” When our Lord came to earth, He laid aside, for the time, His glory, and “being in the form of God … made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.” Now He is back with the Father “with the glory which” He had “before the world was.” And we who know Him are privileged to look upon Him in glory. “We see Jesus … crowned with glory and honor.” And as we by faith gaze upon Him as revealed in the Word, “we … are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” |
