Let us dwell on the most important ideas and passages of the Prologue.

In terms of meaning and composition, it can be divided into three parts: 1) st. 1-5; 2) Art. 6-13; 3) Art. 14-18[861].

1) The first part (vv. 1-5) is the most brilliant in its brevity and content, a condensed exposition of the Old Testament revelation about God's creation of the world. The first phrase deliberately repeats the beginning of the Bible exactly:

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth... (Gen. 1:1).

Literally in three verses (John 1:1-3) the Evangelist summarizes what is spoken of in detail in the 1st chapter of Genesis, where "And God said..."

And yet, it is not only the 1st chapter of the Bible (the Six Days) that comes up when reading the Prologue. The concept of the "Word" (Greek: Lo/goj) evokes many other connotations, of which the most undoubted and interesting are again found in the Old Testament, i.e., in the Scriptures, which by definition testify (prophesy) about Christ.

Before turning directly to the Old Testament testimonies, let us say a few words about extra-biblical (more precisely, near-biblical) parallels.

The term "Logos" itself originated in Greek philosophy. "It occurs for the first time in Heraclitus and is finally consolidated in Stoicism. Stoicism (along with Platonism) is the soil on which Philo's philosophy grew, and hence his doctrine of the Logos. In their understanding, the Logos is the rational principle (principle) underlying the world. However, there it is a philosophical abstraction, and not a living Person, as in the Gospel.

The environment in which the Gospel of John was written, although characterized as Hellenistic, was essentially and fundamentally Jewish. Hellenism was the language in which Jewish thought and Jewish faith were clothed. That is why parallels should be sought primarily in the Bible.

"Most modern scholars have no doubt that the roots of Johannine's teaching about the Logos as the Divine mediator of creation and revelation must be sought in the Old Testament and in the Jewish theology of the New Testament era..."

Christ Himself points to this:

39 Search the Scriptures, for you think by them to have eternal life; but they bear witness of me... 46 For if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me also, because he wrote about me (John 5:39, 46).

In addition to the obvious parallels with Gen. 1, we can recall a number of other very expressive biblical sayings about the creative power of the Word of God:

By the word of the Lord the heavens were created, and by the spirit of His mouth all their host (Psalm 32:6).