who testifies to everything he saw. This is the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Christ Himself is the great trustee of divine revelation, God gave it to Him as Mediator, He sent it by His angel, and through John it reaches the churches. Mark the beautiful order: God to Christ, Christ to the angel, the angel to the apostle, the apostle to us, so that we know what to expect from God and what He expects from us.
AI summary
Commenting on Revelation 1:1-2
Who bore record of the word of God,.... Of the essential and eternal Word of God, his only begotten Son; as John the apostle did in his Gospel, and in his epistles, and also in this book; and which is a clear evidence of his being the writer of it, And of the testimony of Jesus Christ; that is, the Gospel, which testifies of the...
Verse 2. Who bare record of the word of God. Who bore witness to, or testified of (εμαρτυρησε) the word of God. He regarded himself merely as a witness of what he had seen, and claimed only to make a fair and faithful record of it. : "This is the disciple which testifieth (ομαρτυρων) of these things, and wrote these things." : "And he that saw it bare record"--μεμαρτυρηκε.