The Gospel According to St John: 1-10

Jean Calvin, John Calvin

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1995 - Religion - 284 pages

This volume contains commentary on the Gospel of John chapters 1-10. These classic commentaries by Calvin laid the basis for later scholarly exegesis of the Bible. The commentary is verse-by-verse, with anywhere from a paragraph to a whole page of commentary per verse. This is a completely new translation into modern English of Calvin's Commentaries on the New Testament.

Contents

• THE DEDICATORY EPISTLE TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORDS THE SYNDICS AND SENATE OF GENEVA AND HIS RESPECTED LO...: 1
• THE THEME OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN: 5
• CHAPTER ONE: 7
• CHAPTER TWO: 45
• CHAPTER THREE: 60
• CHAPTER FOUR: 87
• CHAPTER FIVE: 116
• CHAPTER SIX: 144
• CHAPTER SEVEN: 180
• CHAPTER EIGHT: 206
• CHAPTER NINE: 237
• CHAPTER TEN: 258

Popular passages

Page 13 - He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

About the author

(1509-1564) One of the most influential reformers, his work was of significance throughout Europe and beyond.

John Calvin was born in Noyon, France on July 10, 1509. His father was the secretary and attorney for the bishopric of Noyon. Calvin was a brilliant scholar and studied law in Paris, Orleans and Bourges.

After what he called a "sudden conversion" at the age of 23, Calvin became a fervent Christian and scholar of the Scripture. Calvin did not immediately break with the Roman Catholic Church, but rather worked toward its reform. His pleas for reform soon brought upon him the hatred of the Catholic Church, and in time he was banished from Paris.

Calvin fled to Switzerland, broke with the Catholic Church, and joined with the reformers. In 1536 he published his famous Institutes of the Christian Religion, which was a systematic presentation of the Protestant position.

In 1559 he founded what later became the University of Geneva. Here he taught his beliefs to thousands of students who in turn carried "Calvinism" back to their homelands throughout Europe.

John Calvin died in Geneva, Switzerland on May 27, 1564.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Gospel According to St John: 1-10; Calvin's New Testament commentaries, Jean Calvin; Calvin's commentaries; Volumes 4-5 of Commentaries, Jean Calvin; The Gospel According to St. John, Thomas Henry Louis Parker
• Authors: Jean Calvin, John Calvin
• Editor: David Wishart Torrance
• Translated by: Thomas Henry Louis Parker
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1995
• ISBN: 0802808042, 9780802808042
• Length: 284 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Biblical Commentary / New Testament / General; Religion / Biblical Studies / New Testament / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts