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In the Beginning Was the Word

John the Evangelist · Gospel of John 1.1–5

Ancient Greek · Level 1 · ~2 min

In the Beginning Was the Word

John the Evangelist, Gospel of John 1.1–5

Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος. Οὗτος ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν θεόν. πάντα δι’ αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο, καὶ χωρὶς αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο οὐδὲ ἕν. ὃ γέγονεν ἐν αὐτῷ ζωὴ ἦν, καὶ ἡ ζωὴ ἦν τὸ φῶς τῶν ἀνθρώπων· καὶ τὸ φῶς ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ φαίνει, καὶ ἡ σκοτία αὐτὸ οὐ κατέλαβεν.

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John the Evangelist, Gospel of John 1.1–5. Source text. CC BY-SA 4.0. Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University), PerseusDL/canonical-greekLit; edition: B. F. Westcott & F. J. A. Hort, 1881 (public-domain text); small-caps opening set in normal case. Word analyses are machine-generated, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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