SPECIAL TOPIC: JOHN 1 COMPARED TO 1 JOHN 1

SPECIAL TOPIC: JOHN 1 COMPARED TO 1 JOHN 1

GOSPEL	LETTER
In the beginning (1:1,2) Word (logos) (1:1) Life (zōē) (1:4) Light in Jesus (1:4) Light revealed (1:4) Darkness (1:5) Witness to light (1:6-8) Humans brought to God (1:7,12-13) Beheld His glory (1:14)	From the beginning (1:1) Word (logos) (1:1) Life (zōē) (1:1,2) Light in God (1:5) Light revealed (1:5) Darkness (1:5) Witness to light (1:3,5) Humans brought to God (1:3) Beheld His glory (1:1-3)

There is a purposeful literary parallelism between these two chapters by John the Apostle.

There has been much discussion about the authorship of the Johannine corpus. See Introduction to John online, "Authorship."