To combat the Gnostic heresy that Jesus Christ was not the real flesh and blood Son of God, John has given us his eyewitness account of Jesus.
John was one of the Lord’s first disciples. Jesus had called John and his brother James to leave their father and their fishing nets and follow Him. John had been in the inner circle with Peter and James as He healed the sick, raised the dead and was there with Him on the Mount of Transfiguration. John and the others had seen Jesus, gazed upon Him, heard Him preach and teach, as John tells us in this epistle, chapter one, verses one and two. John was given the assignment at the cross to take care of Jesus’ mother following the Savior’s death on the cross.
John had written of Jesus in his Gospel and recorded seven miracles of Jesus. John knew Jesus was not the figment of men’s imaginations. The Gnostics, professing themselves to be wise, had become fools.
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