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Borrow from a Yale Divinity School article    

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. (John 1:1-5)

Here we have a charged otherworldly utterance: St. John opens with a steep fall, plunging us into truth’s mystery. He replaces the infancy stories of the previous three Gospels. Where the earlier books narrate Christ’s entrance into humanity, St. John gives us a theological statement of the how and the what: How Jesus traverses the divine and human realms. How Jesus is the incarnate God. Or rather, St. John gives us a poetry of origins. And poetry is essential here, because this passage is about a Word—a Word that transcends all others.