In the beginning was the Word

The Gospel reading in the Episcopal Lectionary for the first Sunday after Christmas comes from the beginning of John’s Gospel.  It begins by stating, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”  The next statement makes a reference to a man, through the use of the pronoun “he.”  John then wrote, “He was in the beginning with God.”  I believe it is common practice to read John’s “Word” as “Jesus Christ,” who is elsewhere known as “the alpha and the omega” – the beginning and the end.

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