Scripture study

Knowing Faith

A reading room for setting passages beside each other, learning the words underneath them, and keeping them by heart. Questions are asked so you go back to the text, not away from it.

Open the reading room Compare two passages

John 1

The Word

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Genesis 1:1–5 beside John 1:1–5 is the first comparison.

Read

Open a chapter. Select a line. Carry it into memory or into a comparison.

Compare

Set two passages on the same desk and ask what they do to each other.

Lexicon

Greek and Hebrew words that carry the story, with the verses that show them.

Memory

The words come away in stages. Then you sit with what the verse actually says.

Compare

In the beginning, and the Word

Genesis 1 and John 1 are not the same paragraph. Knowing Faith puts them side by side and asks questions that only the wording can answer.

What does “beginning” name in each passage, and what is already there before anything is made?
Where is the darkness in Genesis 1, and what does John 1 say the light does?
Who speaks in Genesis 1, and who is called the Word in John 1?

Open this comparison

Left

Genesis 1:1–5

Right

John 1:1–5

Lexicon

The word under the word

A starter lexicon of the Greek and Hebrew words that keep showing up: love, covenant, light, servant, beginning. Each note points back at a verse. It is a reading aid, not a full academic dictionary.

Look up logos

Greek · G3056

λόγος

logos · word

A spoken or written word, and also the reason that holds a message together. In John’s opening it is the name he gives the Son who was with God and was God.

See John 1:1

The text

The English Standard Version.

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