Outline Place Finder PROLOGUE PUBLIC PRIVATE PASSION EPILOGUE BACK to Outline Chapter summary. John takes us back, beyond Creation, to show that Jesus has been God the Son from eternity past. He existed before His birth, coequal with God the Father, the source of light and of life itself (1:1–5). Before He began His ministry on earth the presence of Jesus, the preexistent Word, was announced and pointed out by John (vv. 6–9). Yet, though He made the world itself, and came to a people