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Methodist founder John Wesley summarised the opening verses of John 1 as follows: John 1:1–2 describes the state of things before the creation; John 1:3 describes the state of things in the creation; John 1:4 describes the state of things in the time of man's innocence; John 1:5 describes the state of things in the time of man's corruption. [9]
Chapter and verse divisions did not appear in the original texts of Jewish or Christian bibles; such divisions form part of the paratext of the Bible.Since the early 13th century, most copies and editions of the Bible have presented all but the shortest of the scriptural books with divisions into chapters, generally a page or so in length.
León palimpsest (7th century; extant verses 1 John 1:5–5:21, [25] including the text of the Comma Johanneum . [26] The Muratorian fragment, dated to AD 170, cites chapter 1, verses 1–3 within a discussion of the Gospel of John. [27] Papyrus 9, dating from the 3rd century, has surviving parts of chapter 4, verses 11–12 and 14–17. [28]
The main tenets of Jewish eschatology are the following, in no particular order, elaborated in the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel: [23] End of world (before everything as follows). God redeems the Jewish people from the captivity that began during the Babylonian captivity, in a new Exodus; God returns the Jewish people to the Land of Israel
The Neo-Babylonian Empire under the rule of Nebuchadnezzar II occupied the Kingdom of Judah between 597–586 BCE and destroyed the First Temple in Jerusalem. [2] According to the Hebrew Bible, the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, was forced to watch his sons put to death, then his own eyes were put out and he was exiled to Babylon (2 Kings 25).
The gospel's concluding verses set out its purpose, "that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name." [5] [6] John reached its final form around AD 90–110, [7] although it contains signs of origins dating back to AD 70 and possibly even earlier. [8]
In the original Greek according to Westcott-Hort this verse is: Ταῦτα ἐν Βηθαβαρᾶ ἐγένετο πέραν τοῦ Ἰορδάνου, ὅπου ἦν Ἰωάννης βαπτίζων. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
[1] In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? The New International Version translates the passage as: Now this was John's testimony when the Jews of Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was.