John 1 Bible study: In the beginning was the Word

John's Gospel opens with the words Genesis opens with, "In the beginning" (tap beginning), and says who was there: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" (1:1) (tap Word). "The same was in the beginning with God" (1:2). "All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made" (1:3). "In him was life, and the life was the light of men" (1:4) (tap light). Then: "The Word became flesh and lived among us" (1:14) (tap lived). Then, at 1:17, the chapter names Jesus for the first time: "Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ" (1:17). Here is what almost everyone misses: in the WEB's John, Word with a capital comes only in these two verses, 1:1 and 1:14. Favor's Genesis 1 draws the map line from "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1) to 1:1-3, and these notes don't draw it again.

Genesis 22:8→leads toJohn 1:29

"God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering" (22:8). John the Baptist says of Jesus, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 1:29). The New Testament never quotes 22:8, so linking the two is an interpretation. Many Christians read Abraham's words as reaching forward to Jesus; others read them as answered within the chapter itself, when God provides a ram in Isaac's place (22:13).

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Strong's: "something said (including the thought)". "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" (1:1): the word comes three times in that one verse, and once more in "The Word became flesh and lived among us" (1:14). It is the same Greek word as the word the farmer sows in Mark's parable, "The farmer sows the word" (Mark 4:14), and Favor's Mark 4 studies it there. John's Greek has it 40 times (counted in RP2018), but in the WEB's John it has a capital only in 1:1 and 1:14. In other books the WEB gives it a capital too, among them "concerning the Word of life" (1 John 1:1), and "His name is called “The Word of God.”" (Revelation 19:13).