The Prologue of John - - in the Body of the Gospel of John
The words and themes that are introduced in the first verses of John’s Gospel are developed in the body of the Gospel of John. That the the Prologue's words and themes are reiterated later in the Gospel is evidence that the Prologue is about the human person Jesus of Nazareth and his ministry, not the Genesis creation. As simple as this may sound, the Gospel of John’s first sentences introduce his Gospel, not the Genesis creation. In the previous One God Report podcast episode we explored that while there are a few linguistic connections between John’s opening sentences and Genesis 1, the connections are actually very few. And, the few words that are the same: “in, beginning, light and darkness”, mean something different in John 1 than in Genesis 1. Light and darkness in John 1 is not the light and darkness in Genesis 1. The topic of John 1 is not the same topic as Genesis 1. In this current episode we will examine how the language and themes in the Prologue ...