No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
      II. He presently returns again to speak of Jesus Christ, and cannot go on with John Baptist's testimony till John 1:19; John 1:19. The John 1:16 has a manifest connection with John 1:14; John 1:14, where the incarnate Word was said to be full of grace and truth. Now here he makes this the matter, not only of our adoration, but of our thankfulness, because from that fulness of his we all have received. He received gifts for men (Psalms 68:18), that he might give gifts to men,Ephesians 4:8. He was filled, that he might fill all in all (Ephesians 1:23), might fill our treasures,Proverbs 8:21. He has a fountain of fulness overflowing: We all have received. All we apostles; so some. We have received the favour of this apostleship, that is grace; and a fitness for it, that is truth. Or, rather, All we believers; as many as received him (John 1:16; John 1:16), received from him. Note, All true believers receive from Christ's fulness; the best and greatest saints cannot live without him, the meanest and weakest may live by him. This excludes proud boasting, that we have nothing but we have received it; and silences perplexing fears, that we want nothing but we may receive it. Let us see what it is that we have received.