In the closing verse  of the Prologue to John’s Gospel (John 1:18) we read that Jesus Christ is the “only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father” according to the Received Text (the Textus Receptus). However, the Nestle-Aland text – which is the basis for many modern translations of the New Testament – reads “the only-begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father” – deemed by textual scholars the “harder” reading – partly because “the only-begotten God”  is an untypical Johannine expression, but for other reasons too.

This article is a defence of the traditional reading, that is, the one based on the Received Text.

To access the article, which is a Word document, please click on the link below:

JohnGospelPrologue.2

Categories: Chiastic and Other Structures, Gospel of John, Language and Logic, New Testament Exegesis

Tags: Alexandrian, Byzantine, chiastic, Gospel, John, John 1:1-18, John 1:18, Nestle Aland, Only-Begotten God, Only-Begotten Son, Prologue, Received Text, Structure, Textus Receptus, word count