A | 1 | a | THE WORD. In the beginning.

b | WITH. The Word was with God.

c | GOD. The Word was God.

B | 2. The same was in the beginning with God.

C | 3. All things were made by Him (Egeneto dia).

D | 4, 5. In Him light and life (En).

E | 6-8. JOHN. Witness (Marturian).

F | 9. True light cometh into the world (Erchomenon).

G | 10, 11. Received not (Paraelabon).

G | 12, 13. Received (Elabon).

F | 14. The Word made flesh dwelt among us (Eskenosen).

E | 15. JOHN. Witness (Marturi).

D | 16. Out of His fullness (Ek).

C | 17. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ (Egeneto dia).

B | 18. No man hath seen God at any time.

A | 18 |

c | GOD. God only begotten (The Word was God).

b | BOSOM. The bosom of the Father (With God).

a | DECLARED. He hath declared Him (The Word).

The reader is asked to note the correspondences in this outline. We have already

drawn attention to the balancing members at the beginning and end. Passing to verse 3,

we see that it corresponds with verse 17, the two passages revealing Christ as Creator

both in nature and in the realm of grace. The words egeneto dia, "came to be through",

are used in each case. In the two members marked "E" we have a double reference to

the witness of John the Baptist, while erchomen, "coming", in 1: 9, is echoed by

eskenosen, "dwell" or "tabernacle", in verse 14. The central passages revolve around the

thought of reception.

Having sketched out the conditions under which John wrote his Gospel, and having

given in outline the structure of the prologue and of the Gospel as a whole, we are now

ready to undertake the joyful task of opening up some of the treasures of wisdom, and

grace, and glory, that are to be found in what is perhaps the last book in the Holy