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).

10 As rain and snow come down from heaven, and do not return thither, but waters the earth, and makes it able to bring forth and bring forth, that it may give seed to him who sows, and bread to him who eats, 11 so also my word, which proceedeth out of my mouth, it does not return to me in vain, but fulfills that which pleases me, and he does that for which I sent him (Isaiah 55:10-11).

No less impressive is the correlation with such an Old Testament concept as the Wisdom of God. Moreover, it turns out that its meaning coincides with that of the term "Logos", which is exclusively Greek in origin. This is the intelligent seal that is visible on all creation. This includes, first of all, the text of Proverbs. 8:22-31, in which the speech of Wisdom is quoted in the 1st person:

22 The Lord had me as the beginning of his way, before his creatures, from time immemorial; 23 I have been anointed from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth was. 24 I was born when the deep did not yet exist, when there were no springs abounding in water. 25 I was born before the mountains were raised, before the hills, 26 before he had created the earth, nor the fields, nor the primordial specks of dust of the world. E-27 When He was preparing the heavens, I was there. When he drew a circle on the face of the deep, 28 when he established the clouds above, when he strengthened the fountains of the deep, 29 when he gave a statute to the sea, that the waters should not overstep its boundaries, when he laid the foundations of the earth: 30 then I was a painter with him, and I was a joy all the day, rejoicing in his presence all the time, 31 rejoicing in his earthly circle, and my joy was with the sons of men.

Also a whole passage about Wisdom in Wisdom. 7–9, for example:

22 She is the Intelligent Spirit, the Holy, the Only-begotten, the Many-Parted, the Subtle, the Easy-to-move, the Bright, the Pure, the Clear, the Harmless, the Loving, the Swift, the Irrepressible, 23 the Beneficent, the Philanthropic, the Firm, the Unshakable, the Calm, the Without Sorrow, the All-Seeing, and the Pervading of all intelligent, pure, subtle spirits — 24 for Wisdom is more mobile than any movement, and in its purity passes through and penetrates all things. 25 It is the Breath of the Power of God, and the Pure Outpouring of the Glory of the Almighty, wherefore nothing defiled shall enter into it; 26 She is the reflection of the Eternal Light, and the Pure Mirror of the Action of God, and the Image of His Goodness (Wis. 7:22-26).

With Thee is Wisdom, which knoweth Thy works, and was present when Thou didst create the World, and knoweth what is pleasing in Thy sight, and that which is right according to Thy commandments... (Wisdom 9:9).

Or here are the words of Psalm 103, memorable thanks to the divine service (Orthodox Vespers):