 As I've mentioned to you, grace is a prominent theme in Scripture. Next week, we'll see how it's used prominently in an Old Testament passage. Today, we're focusing more on the New Testament. Sometimes it's helpful to go to the place where a word is first mentioned in Scripture, where God is, in a sense, introducing that word to his people. In the New Testament, the first place that we have grace mentioned is in the Gospel of John, chapter 1,