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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 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."
[T]wo very old manuscripts of the New Testament, the newest of which was, as appeared by the date of it, at least 800 years old, in each of which 1 John, ch.v. ver. 7, was quite wanting, and the end of the eighth verse ran thus, "tres unum sunt;" in another old copy the seventh verse was, but with interlining; in another much more modern copy ...
(The Good News Bible, as a footnote, gave this as: "At every Passover Festival Pilate had to set free one prisoner for them.") Reasons: The same verse or a very similar verse appears (and is preserved) as Matthew 27:15 and as Mark 15:6. This verse is suspected of having been assimilated into Luke at a very early date.
The New International Version (NIV) is a translation of the Bible into contemporary English. Published by Biblica, the complete NIV was released on October 27, 1978 [6] with a minor revision in 1984 and a major revision in 2011. The NIV relies on recently-published critical editions of the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts. [1] [2]
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]