The Fulness of John's Record
Near the beginning of Doctrine and Covenants 93, the Lord stated, “And John saw and bore record of the fulness of my glory, and the fulness of John’s record is hereafter to be revealed” (v6). A natural question is this: Was He referring to a record of John the Beloved or John the Baptist? For the next 11 verses we appear to get a small portion of this record that we will be more completely revealed in some future day. The first five verses read this way: “And he bore record, saying: I saw his glory, that he was in the beginning, before the world was; Therefore, in the beginning the Word was, for he was the Word, even the messenger of salvation—The light and the Redeemer of the world; the Spirit of truth, who came into the world, because the world was made by him, and in him was the life of men and the light of men. The worlds were made by him; men were made by him; all things were made by him, and through him, and of him. And I, John, bear record that I beheld his glory, as the glory o...