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John 1:2 KJV
John · chapter 1 · verse 2
The same was in the beginning with God.John 1:2 · King James Version
John 1:2 in context
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2The same was in the beginning with God.
3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- beginningarchēbeginning, origin, the person or thing that commences, the first person or thing in a…G746 →
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Austin says (de Civitate Dei, lib. 10, cap. 29) that his friend Simplicius told him he had heard a Platonic philosopher say that these first verses of St. John's gospel were worthy to be written in letters of gold.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-5