Passage

John 1.3-4

Book: John · NASB95

Immediate context (±2 verses)

ASV (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.

3. 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.

And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not. 6. There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. (John 1:1-6, ASV)

WEB (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.

3. 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.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it. 6. There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. (John 1:1-6, WEB)

KJV (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.

3. 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.

And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. ^{comprehended: or, did not admit, or, receive} 6. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. (John 1:1-6, KJV)

YLT (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;

3. 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,

and the light in the darkness did shine, and the darkness did not perceive it. 6. There came a man, having been sent from God, whose name [is] John, (John 1:1-6, YLT)

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Setting

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Audience: TBD
Location: TBD
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; see Lexicon Roadmap.

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Arguments and defeaters:

Concepts:

Arianism, via John 1.1-3
Big Bang, via John 1.3
Borde-Guth-Vilenkin Theorem, via John 1.1-3
Christ Was Made (Misread Proof-Texts), via John 1.3
Christianity, via John 1.1-14, John 1.1-18, John 1.3
Christology, via John 1.1-14, John 1.1-18, John 1.3
Christs Deity, via John 1.1-3, John 1.3
DNA, via John 1.3
Doctrine, via John 1.1-18
Father-Son Authority Asymmetry, via John 1.1-3
Genesis Hermeneutics, via John 1.1-3
Genetic Code, via John 1.3
Idealism, via John 1.3
Incarnation, via John 1.1-18
Isaiah 45.7 I Create Evil, via John 1.4-5
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
Logos Christology, via John 1.1-18, John 1.3, John 1.4
Mathematical Intelligibility of Nature, via John 1.1-18, John 1.1-3
Old Testament Christology, via John 1.1-18
Old Testament Witness to the Deity of Christ, via John 1.1-18, John 1.3
Oneness Pentecostalism, via John 1.1-3
Origins and Cosmology, via John 1.3
Pantheism, via John 1.1-3
Process Theism, via John 1.3
Tahrif, via John 1.1-18
Trinity OT Stack (Five Texts), via John 1.3
Trinity vs Oneness vs Modalism vs Arianism, via John 1.1-3
Two Powers in Heaven, via John 1.1-18
Young's Literal Translation, via John 1.3
Zero and the Metaphysics of Nothing, via John 1.1-3, John 1.3

People:

Lexicon:

G0746 - arche, via John 1.1-3
G1096 - ginomai, via John 1.1-18, John 1.1-3, John 1.3
G2222 - zoe, via John 1.4
G2936 - ktizo, via John 1.3
G2937 - ktisis, via John 1.3
G3004 - lego, via John 1.1-14
G3056 - logos, via John 1.1-3
G3956 - pas, via John 1.1-3, John 1.3
G4314 - pros, via John 1.1-3
H0001 - ab, via John 1.1-18
H1697 - dabar, via John 1.3

Guides:

Ris3n Arguments, via John 1.1-18

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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