{"commentaries":[],"citedBy":{"1":[],"2":[],"3":[],"4":[],"5":[],"6":[],"7":[],"8":[],"9":[],"10":[],"11":[],"12":[{"id":"calvin.JHN.1.51.2","author":"John Calvin","author_dates":"1509-1564","tradition":"Reformed","era":"Reformation","died":1564,"ref":"John 1:51","href":"/jhn/1/#v51-calvin","text":"Genesis 28:12","snippet":"Nor have I any doubt that he alludes to the ladder which was exhibited to the patriarch Jacob in a dream, (Genesis 28:12;) for what was prefigured by that vision is actually fulfilled in Christ."},{"id":"henry.JHN.1.51.3","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 1:51","href":"/jhn/1/#v51-henry","text":"Gen. xxviii. 12","snippet":"Christ is to us as Jacob's ladder (Gen. xxviii. 12), by whom angels continually ascend and descend for the good of the saints."},{"id":"bengel.JHN.1.47.1","author":"Johann Albrecht Bengel","author_dates":"1687-1752","tradition":"Lutheran Pietist","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1752,"ref":"John 1:47","href":"/jhn/1/#v47-bengel","text":"Gen. xxviii. 12","snippet":"concerning Him, not immediately to Him ... truly) An affirmation showing intimate knowledge. ... an Israelite) one worthy to see angels ascending and descending, as Jacob did [on the ladder in his dream], ver. 51; comp. Gen. xxviii. 12."},{"id":"bengel.JHN.1.51.1","author":"Johann Albrecht Bengel","author_dates":"1687-1752","tradition":"Lutheran Pietist","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1752,"ref":"John 1:51","href":"/jhn/1/#v51-bengel","text":"Gen. xxviii. 12","snippet":"Jacob saw some such vision, Gen. xxviii. 12."},{"id":"ryle.JHN.1.51.2","author":"J. C. Ryle","author_dates":"1816-1900","tradition":"Anglican (Evangelical)","era":"The 1800s","died":1900,"ref":"John 1:51","href":"/jhn/1/#v51-ryle","text":"Gen. xxviii. 12","snippet":"Arguing, as nearly all do, that the words plainly refer to Jacob's vision of the ladder reaching from heaven to earth, (Gen. xxviii. 12,) they disagree about the way in which the prediction is fulfilled."},{"id":"westcott.JHN.1.51.2","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 1:51","href":"/jhn/1/#v51-westcott","text":"Gen. xxviii. 12","snippet":"So it was in the vision of Jacob (Gen. xxviii. 12), which furnishes the image here; and by the Incarnation that vision was made an abiding reality."}],"13":[],"14":[],"15":[],"16":[],"17":[],"18":[],"19":[],"20":[],"21":[],"22":[]}}