Theme: This passage contains John the Baptist's words of testimony to the ministry of Jesus.

Theme: Jesus taught the necessity, the nature, and means of being "born again".

Theme: True blessing in the word comes not merely from the hearing but from the doing.

Theme: In order to gain the benefit of God's word that God would want us to have, we must first prepare ourselves to rightly receive it.

Theme: James teaches about "pure and undefiled" religion in terms of what it isn't and what it is.