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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (NASB) John 1:1 Word was in the Beginning. Just like Luke, John starts at the beginning too.
While Luke started with the reason for writing his gospel, John starts at the real beginning, before anything
was in existence - except for the LOGOS.
The Greek word for “was” in John 1:1 is in the imperfect tense. That means something
continuously occurring in the past. It was the Word or LOGOS that was existing before there was a beginning
- before the beginning began. John says that the LOGOS was not created. It was always existing.
Word Was With God. The LOGOS was also with God. The philosophers of his day
would probably not have agreed with this statement. They viewed the LOGOS as a force. John says that there
was a relationship between the LOGOS and God when he says, “with.” They were not distant. The LOGOS
was with God. There was a personal relationship between them.
Word was God. But the greatest of these three statements is the next one. This
LOGOS was not the philosopher’s divine reason or some creative force, but God Himself. In the Greek,
the word order does not read as it does in our English Bibles. The Greek order is as follows:
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