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In a 1973 Journal of Biblical Literature article, Philip B. Harner, Professor Emeritus of Religion at Heidelberg College, claimed that the traditional translation of John 1:1c ("and the Word was God") is incorrect. He endorses the New English Bible translation of John 1:1c, "and what God was, the Word was."
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]
John 1:18 is the eighteenth verse in the first chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. This verse concludes the prologue to the Gospel of John, which is also called the "Hymn to the Word". Its message recalls verse 1, asserting that there is no other possibility for humans to know God except through Jesus ...
The context of the verse is the passage in John 1:1-18, Hymn to the Word dealing with the divinity, incarnation and authority of Jesus. Most Christian scholars agree that these words teach us, that all created things, visible, or invisible, were made by this eternal word, that is the Son of God. [1]
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. The New International Version (NIV) translates the passage as: The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. [1]
In the original Greek according to Westcott-Hort this verse is: Οὗτος ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν Θεόν. Outos ēn en archē pros ton Theon. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: The same was in the beginning with God. The New International Version translates the passage as: He was with God in the beginning.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not; The New International Version translates the passage as: "I baptize with water," John replied, "but among you stands one you do not know".
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. The New International Version translates the passage as: He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe.