With respect to these debates, Jn 1:4–5 itself offers little basis for choosing one particular interpretation over others. I suggest that John has intentionally selected these images of life, light, and darkness and the tenses of the verbs in order to link creation to the story that follows in the rest of the Gospel, in which Jesus will act as the privileged agent of revelation, judgement, and salvation.89 The coming of ὁ λόγος in the flesh is an idea that the reader will encounter clearly in 1:14.90