YHN 1:2 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, orange:accusative/object, cyan:dative/indirect object.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

AICNT This was in the beginning with God.

OEB He was in the beginning with God;

CSB He was with God in the beginning.

NLT He existed in the beginning with God.

NIV He was with God in the beginning.

CEV From the very beginning the Word was with God.

ESV He was in the beginning with God.

NASB He was in the beginning with God.

LSB He was in the beginning with God.

WEBBE The same was in the beginning with God.

WMBB (Same as above)

MSG ^(1-2)The Word was first,
  the Word present to God,
  God present to the Word.
The Word was God,
  in readiness for God from day one.

NET The Word was with God in the beginning.

LSV this One was in the beginning with God;

FBV In the beginning he was with God.

TCNT He was in the beginning with God.

T4T He always existed with God before he began [MTY] to create anything.

LEB This one was in the beginning with God.

NRSV He was in the beginning with God.

NKJV He was in the beginning with God.

NAB He was in the beginning with God.

BBE This Word was from the first in relation with God.

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Wymth He was in the beginning with God.

ASV The same was in the beginning with God.

DRA The same was in the beginning with God.

YLT this one was in the beginning with God;

Drby He was in the beginning with [fn]God.

1.2 Elohim

RV The same was in the beginning with God.

Wbstr The same was in the beginning with God.

KJB-1769 The same was in the beginning with God.

KJB-1611 [fn]The same was in the beginning with God.
(Same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)

1:2 Gen.1.1.

Bshps The same was in the begynnyng with God.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Gnva This same was in the beginning with God.

Cvdl The same was in the begynnynge wt God.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

TNT The same was in the beginnynge with God.
(The same was in the beginning with God. )

Wycl This was in the bigynnyng at God.
(This was in the beginning at God.)

Luth Dasselbige war im Anfang bei GOtt.
(Dasselbige what/which in_the beginning at God.)

ClVg Hoc erat in principio apud Deum.
(This was in at_the_beginning apud God. )

UGNT οὗτος ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν Θεόν.
(houtos aʸn en arⱪaʸ pros ton Theon.)

SBL-GNT οὗτος ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν θεόν.
(houtos aʸn en arⱪaʸ pros ton theon.)

TC-GNT Οὗτος ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν Θεόν.
(Houtos aʸn en arⱪaʸ pros ton Theon. )

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs (from our SR-GNT base).

TTN Tyndale Theme Notes:

The Word

John raises the curtain on his Gospel with a stunning description of Jesus Christ as “the Word” (Greek logos, John 1:1). Both Greek and Jewish listeners in the first century would immediately recognize the profound meaning of this title. Greeks would have thought of the seminal forces that sustain the universe. Jewish minds would have thought back to God creating the world with his word (Gen 1:3-28; Ps 33:6, 9). In Jesus’ day, the Word of God had taken on creative personal attributes. Jews viewed God’s Word as personifying divine Wisdom. Through Wisdom, God extended himself into the cosmos, creating the world (Prov 8:22-31).

John makes it clear that Jesus shares the same essence as God; the Son existed before time, and he was the agent of all creation. John anchors the divinity of Jesus in this ancient Jewish concept of Wisdom. The divine Wisdom that has existed with God from before time can now be known in Jesus Christ. In perhaps the most striking verse penned by an apostle, John writes that this Logos, this Wisdom, became flesh and lived among us as a human (John 1:14). What God is, the Logos is, and the Logos is Jesus Christ.

Passages for Further Study

Gen 1:3-28; Ps 33:6, 9; Prov 8:22-31; Isa 40:8; John 1:1-18; 1 Jn 1:1; Rev 19:13

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