Passage
John 1.2
2. The same was in the beginning with God. (ASV)Book: John · NASB95
Immediate context (±2 verses)
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ASV
- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2. The same was in the beginning with God.
- All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made. 4. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. (John 1:1-4, ASV)
WEB
- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2. The same was in the beginning with God.
- All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made. 4. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. (John 1:1-4, WEB)
KJV
- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2. The same was in the beginning with God.
- All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. (John 1:1-4, KJV)
YLT
- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;
2. this one was in the beginning with God;
- all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened. 4. In him was life, and the life was the light of men, (John 1:1-4, YLT)
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Setting
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- Audience: TBD
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- Time period: TBD
Theological reading
Patristic / early-church-father exegesis, to be added.
Key words
Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word.
- None of the words in this verse has its own lexicon entry yet.
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Arguments and defeaters:
- Anointing Implies Subordination Objection Defeater, via John 1.1-18
- Argument from Cosmology (Guillen), via John 1.1-3
- Argument from Intelligibility, via John 1.1-3
- Argument from Mathematical Truth, via John 1.1-3
- Argument from Mathematics (Guillen), via John 1.1-3
- Argument from the Apophatic Limit of Formal Systems, via John 1.1-3
- Argument from the Continuance of Being, via John 1.1-18, John 1.1-3
- Argument from the Costly-Signal Convergence, via John 1.1-18
- Argument from the Observer-Demand Convergence, via John 1.1-18
- Argument from the Pre-Given Logos, via John 1.1-18
- Argument from the Reality of Mathematical Infinity, via John 1.1-3
- Argument from the Trans-Instinctual Agency Convergence, via John 1.1-3
- Argument from the Universal Storytelling Convergence, via John 1.1-14
- Cumulative Case for the Deity of Christ, via John 1.1-3
- Hand of God Argument, via John 1.1-3
- Jesus Has a God Therefore Not God Objection Defeater, via John 1.1-18
- Jesus is Jacobs Ladder, via John 1.1-18, John 1.1-3
- Kalam Cosmological Argument, via John 1.1-3
- Manuscript Variants Bible Corruption Objection Defeater, via John 1.1-3
- Mathematics Requires Christian Theism, via John 1.1-3
- Nag Hammadi Suppressed Gospels Objection Defeater, via John 1.1-3
- Necessary Being is an Intelligent Mind, via John 1.1-3
- Ris3n's Refinement to Jay's Empty Set World Theory, via John 1.1-3
- Six Day Creation Falsified Objection Defeater, via John 1.1-3
- Stealing from God Argument, via John 1.1-3
- Stroud Objection to Transcendental Arguments Defeater, via John 1.1-3
- The Babel Argument, via John 1.1-3
- The Scales Argument, via John 1.1-3
- Transcendental Argument for God, via John 1.1-3
- Trinity Coherence Defense (Latin-Thomist), via John 1.1-18
- Trinity Invented at Nicaea Objection Defeater, via John 1.1-2
- Why Didnt Jesus Write Anything Himself Objection Defeater, via John 1.1-14
Concepts:
- 100 Common Questions, via John 1.1-3
- Arianism, via John 1.1-3
- Borde-Guth-Vilenkin Theorem, via John 1.1-3
- Christianity, via John 1.1-14, John 1.1-18
- Christology, via John 1.1-14, John 1.1-18
- Christs Deity, via John 1.1-3
- Doctrine, via John 1.1-18
- Father-Son Authority Asymmetry, via John 1.1-3
- Genesis Hermeneutics, via John 1.1-3
- Incarnation, via John 1.1-18
- Islamic Dilemma, via John 1.1-18
- Jesus Said, via John 1.1-14
- Kalimatullah, via John 1.1-18
- Laws of the Universe as Witness to Design, via John 1.1-3
- Lesson 2.4, Christology in One Lesson, via John 1.1-18
- Light of Day 1, Christological Reading, via John 1.1-14
- Logos Christology, via John 1.1-18
- Mathematical Intelligibility of Nature, via John 1.1-18, John 1.1-3
- Muslim Objections to the Divinity of Christ, via John 1.1-18
- Old Testament Christology, via John 1.1-18
- Old Testament Witness to the Deity of Christ, via John 1.1-18
- Oneness Pentecostalism, via John 1.1-3
- Pantheism, via John 1.1-3
- Tahrif, via John 1.1-18
- Trinity vs Oneness vs Modalism vs Arianism, via John 1.1-3
- Two Powers in Heaven, via John 1.1-18
- Zero and the Metaphysics of Nothing, via John 1.1-3
People:
- Bart Ehrman, via John 1.1-18
- Jesus, via John 1.1-14
- John the Apostle, via John 1.1-18
- Philo of Alexandria, via John 1.1-18
Lexicon:
- G0746 - arche, via John 1.1-3
- G1096 - ginomai, via John 1.1-18, John 1.1-3
- G3004 - lego, via John 1.1-14
- G3056 - logos, via John 1.1-3
- G3778 - houtos
- G3956 - pas, via John 1.1-3
- G4314 - pros, via John 1.1-3
- H0001 - ab, via John 1.1-18
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Why these four translations
ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the most literal English translations available (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the public domain in the United States, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.
The four:
- ASV (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
- WEB (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
- KJV (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
- YLT (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.
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