![]() ![]() He had stated that Jesus came by water and blood, but did not refer to them as witnesses at that time. However, the truth of the Trinity does not depend on this passage alone, but is found in many other portions of the Scriptures… Having stated in the previous verses the Person and work of Christ, John now goes on to state the trustworthiness of our belief in Him." ( Believer's Bible Commentary)įor there are three - John has only mentioned one witness up to this point, declaring that " it is the Spirit Who testifies" in 1Jn 5:6- note. Some people think it is important to retain the words because they mention the three Persons of the Trinity. But this does not at all affect the truth of the inspiration of the Scriptures. MacDonald adds that "It always disturbs some devout Christians to learn that parts of verses 7, 8, as found in the KJV and NKJV, are actually found in only a handful of Greek manuscripts of the NT. No version earlier than the fifth century in any other language contains it. No Greek manuscript earlier than the fourteenth century contains the passage. W E Vine - The seventh verse, given in the KJV is not part of the original. ![]() Beyond any shadow of doubt the wording of the NIV text represents what John actually wrote." ( The Epistles of John - The New International Commentary on the New Testament- I. The words in fact occur in none of the Greek manuscripts of 1 John, except for a few late and worthless ones, and are not quoted by any early church writers, not even by those who would have joyfully seized upon this clear biblical testimony to the Trinity in their attacks on heretics they probably owe their origin to some scribe who wrote them in the margin of his copy of 1 John later they were erroneously regarded as part of the text. Marshall another respected authority on First John writes "This form of wording appears in no reputable modern version of the Bible as the actual text most editions adopt the same practice as in the NIV of relegating the extra words to a footnote, while some (such as the RSV and NEB) totally ignore them. Because verse 7 in the King James Version is not an authentic part of the Greek text, it is here not given any interpretative treatment ( The Epistles of John- An Expositional Commentary). Accordingly they were contained in the Textus Receptus upon which the translators of the King James Version based their English rendering. Erasmus did not find the words in any of the Greek texts upon which he based his first two editions of his Greek New Testament, but in the third edition, in a spirit of compromise, he reluctantly included them in his text. Hodges and Farstad in the edition of The Greek New Testament According To The Majority Text, generally supportive of the Textus Receptus, rightly omit verse 7 entirely. Hiebert explains that "The statement in verse 7 ( KJV) concerning the three heavenly witnesses, commonly known as the Johannine Comma, is an expansion of the Greek text upon the basis of the Latin and is devoid of any reliable textual support as a true part of the original. The clause that was present in the 1977 version ( And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth) is in turn shifted to the end of verse 6 in the 1995 NAS. On a separate note related to translation, if you use the older version of the NAS (1977), be aware that the new version (1995) shifts the first clause of verse 8 ( For there are three that bear witness) to verse 7. KJV 1Jn 5:7-8 - For there are three that bear record 8 And there are three that bear witness in earth.Īlmost all authorities agree that the text in bold italics above in the KJV is not in the original Greek and for that reason those words are not found in most modern translation (ESV, NAS, ESV, NIV). 1 John 5 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries.Greek - hoti treis eisin (3PPAI) hoi marturountes (PAP) 1 John 5:1 1 John 5:2 1 John 5:3 1 John 5:4 1 John 5:5 1 John 5:6 1 John 5:7 1 John 5:8 1 John 5:9 1 John 5:10 1 John 5:11 1 John 5:12 1 John 5:13 1 John 5:14 1 John 5:15 1 John 5:16 1 John 5:17 1 John 5:18 1 John 5:19 1 John 5:20 1 John 5:21Ĭharts from Jensen's Survey of the NT - used by permissionĪnother Overview Chart - 1 John - Charles Swindoll BASIS OF FELLOWSHIPġ John 5:7 For there are three that testify:
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