John 1:1 KJV — MannaFest

John 1:1

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

KJV

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ASV

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

WEB

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

YLT

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;

DBT

In [the] beginning was the Word, and the Word was withGod, and the Word wasGod.

About this book

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John — The Gospel of sevens and signs. Seven signs, seven 'I AM' sayings, a prologue and an epilogue — written 'that ye might believe' (20:31).

Author: John the Apostle (2nd-century patristic attribution + internal claims)
Date: c. AD 85–95

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The Word / LogosJohn 1:1–18 — the prologue of the Word.

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Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
John 17:5
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Revelation 19:13
And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
Colossians 1:17
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
John 1:14
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

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And this is necessary to their adoption; for we cannot expect the love of God if we have not something of his likeness, nor claim the privileges of adoption if we be not under the power of regeneration.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

3 ), and Christ, though he was perfectly holy and harmless, yet appeared in the likeness of sinful flesh ( Rom. viii. 3 ), and was made sin for us, 2 Cor. v. 21 . When Adam had sinned, God said to him, Dust thou art; not only because made out of the dust, but because by sin he was sunk into dust.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Where this verse connects

Chiasm John 1:18
John's Prologue divine-Word inclusio: 'the Word was with God ... was God' mirrors 'the only God ... has made him known'. confidence=author-asserted; level=pericope.
R. Alan Culpepper, 'The Pivot of John's Prologue,' New Testament Studies 27 (1980): 1-31
Inclusio John 20:28
BOOK-LEVEL. John's deity-confession frame: 'the Word was God' (1:1) opens, Thomas's 'My Lord and my God' (20:28) climaxes before the purpose statement. CONTESTED (Unitarian reading). Hays: coherence + satisfaction high.
TGC John commentary; critique: biblicalunitarian.com John 20:28; ASV/WEB text
Echo Genesis 1:1
John opens his Gospel with Genesis's first words — 'In the beginning' — and places the Word there before anything was made.
Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (public domain)

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