Grace Overflowing for Sinners

John focuses here in verses 14 to 18 on the glory of Christ, and he focuses on the grace of God overflowing from that glory. He could have said, we have received truth upon truth. And he didn't. This grace is overflowing, this glory is overflowing with grace and truth. So the accent in the paragraph is falling on grace. In fact, after this verse 16, the word grace never occurs again in this gospel, nor in 1 John.