When the religious machine pressed John for a title, he answered with three refusals and one vocation: he was not the Christ — only a voice clearing the road for the Lord.
John does not introduce Jesus as a life coach. He points to the Lamb God provides to deal with sin — and the Spirit marks the Son the Father sent.
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John 1 and Genesis: Same Beginning, Same Lord
John 1:1-3; Genesis 1:1
John’s prologue does not soften Genesis — it names the Word who was God, already there when the beginning began, the One through whom all things were made.
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