YHN 1:6 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, pink:genitive/possessor, 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 There was a man, sent from {God},[fn] whose name was John.

1:6, God: D(05) reads “the Lord.”

OEB There appeared a man sent from God, whose name was John;

CSB There was a man sent from God whose name was John.

CEV God sent a man named John,

LSB There was a man having been sent from God, whose name was John.

WEBBE There came a man sent from God, whose name was John.

WMBB There came a man sent from God, whose name was Yochanan.

NET A man came, sent from God, whose name was John.

LSV There came a man—having been sent from God—whose name [is] John,

FBV God sent a man named John.

TCNT There came a man sent from God, whose name was John.

T4T A man whose name was John was sent by God {God sent a man whose name was John}.

LEB A man came, sent from God, whose name was[fn] John.

1:6 Literally “the name to him”

BBE There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

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Wymth There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

ASV There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.

DRA There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

YLT There came a man — having been sent from God — whose name [is] John,

Drby There was a man sent from [fn]God, his name John.

1.6 Elohim

RV There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.

Wbstr There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

KJB-1769 ¶ There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

KJB-1611 ¶ [fn]There was a man sent from God, whose name was Iohn.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)

1:6 Mat.3.1.

Bshps There was a man sent from God, whose name was Iohn:
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from marking of added words (and possibly capitalisation and punctuation))

Gnva There was a man sent from God, whose name was Iohn.
(There was a man sent from God, whose name was Yohn. )

Cvdl There was sent from God a man, whose name was Ihon.
(There was sent from God a man, whose name was Yohn.)

TNT There was a man sent from God whose name was Iohn.
(There was a man sent from God whose name was Yohn. )

Wycl A man was sent fro God, to whom the name was Joon.
(A man was sent from God, to whom the name was Yohn.)

Luth Es war ein Mensch, von GOtt gesandt, der hieß Johannes.
(It what/which a Mensch, from God sent, the/of_the was_called Yohannes.)

ClVg Fuit homo missus a Deo, cui nomen erat Joannes.[fn]
(Fuit human missus from Deo, cui nomen was Yoannes. )

1.6 Fuit homo missus. Postquam sublimi volatu ultra omnem naturam in altitudinem theologiæ ascendit, quia Verbum apud Patrem semper fuisse contemplatus est, mox ad humilitatem humanæ naturæ, et specialiter præcursoris Verbi descendit contra illos qui dicebant humanam naturam in primo parente ex toto perditam et ad nihilum redactam. Homo missus. Homo, non angelus, ut hæretici volunt, missus a Deo. Ideo potuit dicere de Deo.

1.6 Fuit human missus. Postquam sublimi volatu ultra omnem naturam in altitudinem theologiæ went_up, because Verbum apud Patrem always fuisse contemplatus it_is, mox to humilitatem humanæ naturæ, and specialiter præcursoris Verbi descendit on_the_contrary those who dicebant humanam naturam in primo parente from toto perditam and to nihilum redactam. Homo missus. Homo, not/no angelus, as hæretici volunt, missus from Deo. Ideo potuit dicere about Deo.

UGNT ἐγένετο ἄνθρωπος ἀπεσταλμένος παρὰ Θεοῦ, ὄνομα αὐτῷ Ἰωάννης.
(egeneto anthrōpos apestalmenos para Theou, onoma autōi Yōannaʸs.)

SBL-GNT Ἐγένετο ἄνθρωπος ἀπεσταλμένος παρὰ θεοῦ, ὄνομα αὐτῷ Ἰωάννης·
(Egeneto anthrōpos apestalmenos para theou, onoma autōi Yōannaʸs;)

TC-GNT Ἐγένετο ἄνθρωπος ἀπεσταλμένος παρὰ Θεοῦ, ὄνομα αὐτῷ [fn]Ἰωάννης.
(Egeneto anthrōpos apestalmenos para Theou, onoma autōi Yōannaʸs. )

1:6 ιωαννης ¦ ιωανης WH

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

Parallel YHN 1:6