Joh 1:1 | CPDV | STEP | In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word.

John 1:1

The divinity and incarnation of Christ. John bears witness of him. He begins to call his disciples.

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word. ^{▼▼1:1The words ‘Deus’ and ‘Verbum’ are both in the nominative case, so the text could be read as ‘God was the Word,’ or as ‘the Word was God.’ However, word order in Latin is not entirely irrelevant, therefore this translation prefers ‘God was the Word,’ over ‘the Word was God.’ The same translation choice is made in the original Rheims New Testament of 1582.(Conte)}