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No other book of the New Testament has attracted as much attention from commentators as the Fourth Gospel. It has stirred minds, hearts, and imaginations from Christianity’s earliest days. In The Gospel of John, Francis Moloney unfolds the identifiable “point of view” of this unique Gospel narrative and offers readers, heirs to its rich and widely varied interpretative traditions, relevance for...

The Word in God becomes the light of the world (vv. 1–5). The first words of the Prologue, “In the beginning (en archę̄) was the Word,” establish a parallel between the opening of the Gospel and the biblical account of the beginnings of the human story in Gen 1:1. Before the archē of Gen 1:1 there were only God, the waters of chaos, and darkness, but the author of the Fourth Gospel announces that even then the Word “was” (ēn). The use of the imperfect tense of the verb “to be” places the Word outside
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