Although the Johannine Testimonium is often placed within the Book of Signs as part of the first major literary unit,2 it seems more fitting both literarily and theologically to place the Testimonium with the Prologue as an introduction to the Book of Signs, or to the whole Gospel.3 Smalley is correct in seeing the entire first chapter as an introduction to the Gospel.4 As Beasley-Murray says, “The prologue of the Gospel ends not with v 18 but with the Christological utterance of v 51.… Certainly