One of the commentaries begins “No book in literature has so breathtaking an opening as these stupendous findings on the life and character about to be described, flung down so confidently as the only possible explanation of them, given us as a kind of thesis, of which all the facts that are to follow are the proof.” John proposes the doctrine of the Logos. Always, there has been God. And always there has been Another with him, who is to God what a man’s word and thought are to a man. John receives no opposition until he announces that this Logos has entered into it in the flesh, has tabernacle among men. The Gospel proper begins with the witness of John the Baptist and followed by the first miracle at the wedding feast where Jesus’ mother tells them, “Do whatever he tells you.” We meet Nicodemus and witness Jesus, the most patient of teachers, taken aback by Nicodemus’ slowness of perception.
One of the commentaries begins “No book in literature has so breathtaking an opening as these stupendous findings on the life and character about to be described, flung down so confidently as the only possible explanation of them, given us as a kind of thesis, of which all the facts that are to follow are the proof.” John proposes the doctrine of the Logos. Always, there has been God. And always there has been Another with him, who is to God what a man’s word and thought are to a man. John receives no opposition until he announces that this Logos has entered into it in the flesh, has tabernacle among men. The Gospel proper begins with the witness of John the Baptist and followed by the first miracle at the wedding feast where Jesus’ mother tells them, “Do whatever he tells you.” We meet Nicodemus and witness Jesus, the most patient of teachers, taken aback by Nicodemus’ slowness of perception.
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