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The vision for this series is to provide for pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and lay people a clear and compelling exposition of texts of the Bible in the context of the Bible’s Story, and to provide discussion and instantiations of how the Bible’s Story is lived today. The purpose of the Story of God Bible Commentary Series is to explain and illuminate Scripture as God’s Story, with...

The continuities between this passage and 1:1–4—proclamation and fellowship—serve to frame the new elements introduced here. First, proclamation introduces the idea of a message (angelia), which was “heard from him” and then declared to John’s readers. Whereas proclamation in 1:1–4 is based on eyewitness testimony (1:3), here it consists of “the message we have heard from him” (1:5). Second, the message is that “God is light; in him there is no darkness at all” (1:5). Third, fellowship with God is
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