1. The Word in eternity past, who was God, through creation coming as life and light to bring forth the children of God — vv. 1-13
2. The Word becoming flesh, with grace in fullness and with reality, to declare God in the only begotten Son of God — vv. 14-18
3. Jesus as the Lamb of God, with the Holy Spirit as the dove, making the believers stones for the building of the house of God with the Son of Man — vv. 19-51
a. Religion looking for a great leader — vv. 19-28
b. Jesus introduced as a Lamb with a dove — vv. 29-34
c. Bringing forth stones for God’s building — vv. 35-51
b. The body of Jesus, the temple, destroyed and raised up in resurrection — vv. 18-22
C. Life meeting the need of man’s every case — 2:23 —11:57
1. The need of the moral — life’s regenerating — 2:23 —3:36
a. The Lord’s commitment not in miracles but in life — 2:23 —3:1
b. Regeneration by the divine Spirit in the human spirit — 3:2-13
c. Satan’s evil nature in man’s flesh being judged on the cross through the death of Christ in the form of the serpent that the believers may have eternal life — 3:14-21
d. The regenerated people becoming the bride of Christ as His increase — 3:22-30
e. The immeasurable Son of God for man’s believing unto eternal life — 3:31-36
2. The need of the immoral — life’s satisfying — 4:1-42
a. A thirsty Savior and a thirsty sinner — vv. 1-8
b. The emptiness of religion’s tradition and the fullness of life’s living water — vv. 9-14
1. Life’s issue — a house of feasting (a miniature of the church life) — vv. 1-11
2. Life’s multiplication for the church through death and resurrection (the glorification of God and the judgment upon the world and Satan implied) — vv. 12-36a
4. Washed and willing to remain in the fellowship, but failing — vv. 31-38
II. Jesus crucified and Christ resurrected going to prepare the way to bring man into God, and as the Spirit coming to abide and live in the believers for the building of God’s habitation — 14:1 —21:25
A. Life’s indwelling — for the building of God’s habitation — 14:1 —16:33
1. The dispensing of the Triune God — for the producing of His abode — 14:1-31
a. Jesus going through death and Christ coming in resurrection to bring the believers into the Father — vv. 1-6
b. The Triune God dispensing Himself into the believers — vv. 7-20
(1) The Father embodied in the Son seen among the believers — vv. 7-14
(2) The Son realized as the Spirit to abide in the believers — vv. 15-20
c. The Triune God making an abode with the believers — vv. 21-24
d. The Comforter’s reminding and life’s peace — vv. 25-31
2. The organism of the Triune God in the divine dispensing — 15:1 —16:4
a. The vine and the branches being an organism to glorify the Father by expressing the riches of the divine life — 15:1-11
b. The branches loving one another to express the divine life in fruit-bearing — 15:12-17
c. The vine and the branches, separated from the world, being hated and persecuted by the religious world — 15:18 —16:4
3. The work of the Spirit consummating in the mingling of divinity with humanity — 16:5-33
a. The Son’s going for the Spirit’s coming — vv. 5-7