John 1:12-13

12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

Remember, one of the purposes of the prologue is for John to introduce the main themes of his Gospel. One of those themes is that there are two kinds of people:

1. Those who receive and believe in Jesus and who as a result become part of God’s people—with all that entails;
2. Those who don’t.

Throughout the rest of the Gospel, we will see this distinction between people play out over and over again.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

This distinction is still playing out in our day. Despite all the ways of dividing people, there is really only one division that matters—those who believe in Jesus, and those who don’t.