The Study of Scripture
Disciplined study of the biblical text — its original languages, its historical world, and two thousand years of conversation about what it means.
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The Gospel of John·John 1:1–18
In the Beginning Was the Word
The Prologue to John's Gospel is among the most theologically dense passages in the New Testament. It reaches back to Genesis, draws on Hellenistic philosophy, and makes a claim about Jesus that would have been scandalous to both Jewish and Greek ears. This study works through every verse, word by word.
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In the Beginning Was the Word
The Prologue reaches back to Genesis, draws on Hellenistic philosophy, and makes a claim about Jesus that would have been scandalous to both Jewish and Greek ears.
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How These Studies Work
Every study on this site works through the same disciplined structure — not because structure is an end in itself, but because the text deserves more than a quick read and a few application points. These studies are built for people who want to sit with a passage long enough to hear what it actually says.
- IThe Text— Read closely and in full context — not lifted, not trimmed.
- IIHistorical & Cultural World— What a first-century audience heard that we don't.
- IIIThe People— Who they were, what shaped them, what happened before and after this scene.
- IVOriginal Languages— Hebrew and Greek word studies with Strong's numbers, transliterations, and lexical definitions.
- VObservation— What the text says — before what we think it means.
- VIInterpretation— In conversation with commentators across the traditions.
- VIIApplication— Honest about the distance between then and now.
- VIIIThe Takeaway— One clear statement you could carry into the week.
- IXDiscussion Questions— Built for real groups — not rhetorical ones.
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