“but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.” —John 20:31

See: His Glory

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” —John 1:14

“The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,” —Exodus 34:6

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” —John 1:14

“The glory revealed to Moses when the Lord passed in front of him and sounded his name, displaying that divine goodness characterized by ineffable grace and truth, was the very same glory John and his friends saw in the Word-made-flesh” —D.A. Carson, The Gospel According to John

“The truthfulness of God to keep his promises and the grace of God to rescue his people found their ultimate expression when God sent Jesus”
—Matt Carter and Josh Wredberg, Exalting Jesus in John

Receive: Grace upon Grace

“For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.”
—John 1:16

“In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.”
—1 John 4:9

“No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.” —John 1:18

“Those who believe in God can never in a way be sure of him again. Once they have seen him in a stable, they can never be sure where he will appear or to what lengths he will go or to what ludicrous depths of self-humiliation he will descend in his wild pursuit of man. If holiness and the awful power and majesty of God were present in this least auspicious of all events, this birth of a peasant’s child, then there is no place or time so lowly and earthbound but that holiness can be present there too.” —Frederick Buechner, The Hungering Dark

“This is good news of Advent. God isn’t afraid to show up in unlikely, unseen, and humble places; we might even say he prefers them. If he can show up in the dead of night in a crowded animal stable, he can show up anywhere.” —Jeremy Linneman, https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/if-god-show-up-bethlehem/

[10] And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. [11] For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. [12] And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”
—Luke 2:10–12