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John 4 is the fourth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The eternality of Jesus. The major part of this chapter (verses 1-42) recalls Jesus' conversation with the Samaritan woman at the well in Sychar. In verses 43-54, he returns to Galilee, where he heals a royal official's son.
Even the King James Version had doubts about this verse, as it provided (in the original 1611 edition and still in many high-quality editions) a sidenote that said, "This 36th verse is wanting in most of the Greek copies." This verse is missing from Tyndale's version (1534) and the Geneva Bible (1557).
Hilary of Poitiers: "Whereas he had said, the Word was God, the fearfulness, and strangeness of the speech disturbed me; the prophets having declared that God was One.But, to quiet my apprehensions, the fisherman reveals the scheme of this so great mystery, and refers all to one, without dishonour, without obliterating [the Person], without reference to time, saying, The Same was in the ...
Methodist founder John Wesley summarised the opening verses of John 1 as follows: John 1:1–2 describes the state of things before the creation; John 1:3 describes the state of things in the creation; John 1:4 describes the state of things in the time of man's innocence; John 1:5 describes the state of things in the time of man's corruption. [9]
In the original Greek according to Westcott-Hort this verse is: Ἐν αὐτῷ ζωὴ ἦν, καὶ ἡ ζωὴ ἦν τὸ φῶς τῶν ἀνθρώπων, En autō zōē ēn, kai hē zōē ēn to phōs tōn anthrōpōn. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? The New International Version translates the passage as: They questioned him, "Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The New International Version translates the passage as: There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. The New Living Translation identifies John as "John the Baptist". [1]
Augustine: "What Light it is to which John bears witness, he shows himself, saying, That was the true Light." [3]Chrysostom: "Or thus; Having said above that John had come, and was sent, to bear witness of the Light, lest any from the recent coming of the witness, should infer the same of Him who is witnessed to, the Evangelist takes us back to that existence which is beyond all beginning ...