Who is Jesus?
Today I thought I would have a short study looking at the titles we find for Jesus in just one chapter of
the Bible.
That chapter is in the Gospel of John in the
New Testament
Let's Look at the Gospel of John chapter 1
The first 2 verses tell us that Jesus is
The Eternal Word
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God."
Verse 3 tells us that Jesus is
The Creator
"All things were made through Him,
and without Him nothing was made that was made."
Verse 4 tells us that Jesus is
The Life
"In Him was life,"
"and the life was the light of men."
Verses 4 & 5 tell us that Jesus is
The Light
"and the life was the light of men.
And the light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness did not comprehend it."
Now lets look at verses 6 - 9
we read here how there was to be no confusion that John the Baptist was this light - no Jesus is
The True Light
Then in verse 10
we read again of Jesus as The Creator
Verses 12 & 13 tell us that Jesus is
The Adopter of Believers into the Family of God
"But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God,
to those who believe in His name:
who were born, not of blood,
nor of the will of the flesh,
nor of the will of man,
but of God."
Verses 14 - 18
Verse 14 again tells us that Jesus is The Word
Verses 14 and 18 both point us to Jesus as The Only Begotten Son
Going further on in this chapter we hear from John the Baptist who declares that Jesus is The Lamb of God
John chapter 1 verse 29
"The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!"
John the Baptist also spoke of Jesus in verse 34
where he said
"And I have seen and testified that this is
the Son of God"
So John also called Him The Son of God
We also read of John again calling Him The Lamb of God in verse 36
"And looking at Jesus as He walked, he said,
"Behold the Lamb of God""
Verses 40 - 42
The next day we find the first disciples Andrew and Peter being chosen.
Andrew met Jesus and then told his brother Simon (Peter) that Jesus is The Messiah (Christ)
and then he brought him to Jesus.
One of the two who heard John speak, and followed Him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.
He first found his own brother Simon,
and said to him,
“We have found the Messiah”
(which is translated, the Christ).
And he brought him to Jesus.
A few verses later in verse 49 we read of Nathaniel having the revelation of Jesus as the Son of God and The King of Israel when he met Him
Nathanael answered and said to Him,
“Rabbi, You are the Son of God!
You are the King of Israel!”
The Last Title we read in this chapter is spoken by Jesus himself in verse 51 in response to Nathaniel
And He said to him,
“Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.”
Who is Jesus? - Summary
We can see here the 17 times where
Jesus was given a descriptive title
in the first chapter of the Gospel of John.
Jesus Is:
The Eternal Word
The Creator
The Life
The Light
The True Light
The Creator
The Adopter of Believers into the Family of God
The Word
The Only Begotten Son
The Only Begotten Son
The Lamb of God
The Son of God
The Lamb of God
The Messiah (Christ)
The Son of God
The King of Israel
The Son of Man
Throughout this passage we see
11 individual Titles for Jesus
The Word
The Creator
The Life
The Light
The Adopter of Believers
The Only Begotten Son
The Lamb of God
The Son of God
The Messiah
The King of Israel
The Son of Man
8 Titles were spoken by
the Disciple John
the author of this Gospel
The Eternal Word
The Creator
The Life
The Light
The True Light
The Word
The Adopter of Believers
The Only Begotten Son
2 Titles were spoken by
John the Baptist
The Lamb of God
The Son of God
1 Title was spoken by Andrew
The Messiah
2 Titles were spoken by Nathaniel
The Son of God
The King of Israel
AND
1 Title was spoken by Jesus
The Son of Man
All the Titles in order as proclaimed by
The Disciple John
John the Baptist
Andrew
Nathaniel
JESUS
The Eternal Word (v1-2)
The Creator (v3)
The Life (v4)
The Light (v4-5)
The True Light (v9)
The Creator (v10)
The Adopter of Believers (v12-13)
The Word (v14)
The Only Begotten Son (v14)
The Only Begotten Son (v18)
The Lamb of God (v29)
The Son of God (v34)
The Lamb of God (v36)
The Messiah (v41)
The Son of God (v49)
The King of Israel (v49)
The Son of Man (v51)
