Without Him, Christianity has nothing unique to say, nothing unique to give, no hope to offer, no forgiveness to promise, no salvation that can be secured, no Son, no Spirit, no Father, no nothing. John, the human author of the Fourth Gospel, knows this fact very well. So in his gospel’s prologue, which is made up of the first eighteen verses, he sets out the basic facts about Jesus—who He is, what He is, why He came to earth, and why we should listen to Him and not turn away. The facts presented