Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
Ver. 2. Who bare record of the word] This John the divine, then, was John the Evangelist, whatever Dennis of Alexandria dispute to the contrary. It was Moses's honour (saith one), who was God's peculiar favourite, to be penman of the first book of the Old Testament; and it was John's honour, Christ's peculiar favourite, to be the penman of the last book of the New Testament.