All this wisdom is a mixture of Jewish religious and Hellenic philosophical ideas in the name of the Teachings of Jesus to pass more easily so that new converts do not choke on what is for the Jews it is a temptation, for the Hellenes it is madness. This is the usual propaganda of religious innovation.
Lets read on.
35 Everything through Him began to be, and without Him nothing began to be that began to be. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. This is philosophical poetry, on which hundreds of books have been written. But God is still the same Jewish one.
6 There was a man sent from God; his name is John. 7 He came for a testimony, to testify of the Light, so that all might believe through him. 8 He was not a light, but was sent to testify of the Light. 9 There was a true light that enlightens every person who comes into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own, and his own did not accept him. 12 But to those who accepted him, believing in his name, he gave authority to be children of God, 13 who neither of blood, nor of the desire of the flesh, nor of the desire of a husband, but of God they were born. 14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; and we have seen His glory, the glory as of the Only Begotten of the Father
From which God? All the same, from the Jewish Yahweh, (in Judaism of Jesus times the difference sin interpretations was already explained by the fact that the God in the Bible is the same, only the names are different). And here suddenly the Light appears, which is: true in what sense? Light is matter, now we know this, but the evangelist did not. And therefore he gets confused in the matter: he speaks of light sometimes as the actual light, sometimes light in a figurative sense, and the light is starting to assume the mystical meaning of divine origins. If we mean the light of reason, then those who come into the world will not reach the reason to soon, and it is mainly those around them that enlighten them. Let us recall the Mowgli found in India it remained a beast, since the light of reason did not touch him outside of human society, in the absence of human communication. If, however, Light is the Creative Power of God (the world began to be through Him), then there are already two Creative Powers, and even three, or even four: besides the Word and Light, there is also Spirit and Wisdom mentioned elsewhere. But the key to this is simple all this is a reference to the secret knowledge of the Gnostic doctrine. That is, in addition to the religious Jew and the Hellenic philosopher, the Gnostic also had a hand in the Prologue. Then he came to his own and his own did not accept him a return to Judaism, his own these are Gods chosen Jews, who else? And to those who accepted here is the beginning of the theology of replacement developed and preached by Paul: the Jews killed the Messiah in the person of Jesus, and therefore Jehovahs Choice passed to those who believed that Jesus is the very Messiah, the Anointed One, the King Jewish.
He gave the power to be children of God, who were born of God and only here is the speech of Jesus about the Beginning from Above, about the Son of God of all who believed in the Heavenly Father and His Son of God Jesus Christ (the good). And then again a rollback to Judaism-Hellenism-Gnosticism in verse 14. The only begotten of the Father what is that? These are religious and philosophical disputes that lasted until the 4th century of the only begotten or consubstantial type, and have not been completely resolved to this day. In the Greek text, μονογενής is the only begotten, the only one. That is, the old pompous word confuses and hides the true meaning: the only son of his father, He is the only son of the Father, born by the Father Himself, nothing unusual. Here is just one question: how would a mortal person who wrote the Prologue know about the family circumstances of God Himself? Moreover, to dare to tell these Gods family details in a completely earthly way, describing the relationship between fathers and children? From this point of view, such statements look like unscientific fantasy: why would God reveal his family secrets to mere mortals? Thus, it turns out that from the Teachings of Jesus here there is only, for the first time, the definition of God: not just an impersonal collective name for the Jewish names of God, but by the name revealed to us by Jesus. It is this line that most vividly indicates the late editing of the text dating back to the beginning of the theological battles waged by the Orthodox with the Gnostics from the second century.
Lets proceed.
15 John testifies of Him, and, exclaiming, says: This was the One about whom I said that He who followed me stood in front of me, because he was before me.
Where did he say, to whom did he say and when? Well, in the following story about the visit of John by the Pharisees. The author of the Prologue reveals himself: he first read the Gospel of John, and then wrote the prologue to it. That is, he put the cart in front of the horse.
16 And from His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace, of whose fullness, Jesus fullness? What is meant by fullness? In the church teaching there is the concept of the Fullness of the Holy Spirit, which the Church possesses, But grace upon grace draws more attention. That is, it turns out, you can add a little more Spirit to the Spirit of God, strengthen God, multiply Him, increase Him? Since God is the Spirit, then either he is present in all his Fullness or not at all, the Spirit is not divided into parts. But, in any case, this is the subject of theological controversy much later than the supposed time of the writing of the gospel at the end of the first century.
17 for the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ " ah!, thats the point: after all, some implicit, but certainly saving part of grace, it turns out, was contained in the Jewish Law given by Moses, and Jesus added to it his grace-truth, and then the graceful grace happened: the Old Testament merged with the New one. On this basis, today an idea is being carried out and a new, revolutionary idea is being put forward about the equal salvation capability of the New and Old Testaments: for Christians, Salvation is in Jesus, and for the Jews in the Torah..
To the obvious absurdity of this multi-storey religious structure, it remains for fullness to add that, according to modern scientific views, biblical heroes, including the above-mentioned Moses and the Jewish ancestral god Yahweh-Jehovah himself, are fictional heroes, and the entire biblical history of the Jewish people a collection of folk tales and, of course, a fantasy. As for through Jesus Christ, the very attachment: Christ = Mashiach = King of the Jews, which is expected by the Jews according to the biblical OT-prophecies, to the Name of Jesus, reveals that the author of the Prologue a Messianic Jew.
18 No one has seen God at any time; The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has revealed " and how can this true statement be combined with all the previous? And how can this be Jehovah, whom so many had seen already: Adam and Eve, Abraham with Sarah, and Moses (from behind) and even Elijah the prophet, and who appeared to many biblical characters from behind, from the front, or even sideways, and even in the form of pillars and other horror stories, and more than once arranged personal beatings with or without reason. And again, editorial interference in the text: the Only Begotten, who is in the bosom of the Father all this, I dare to insist, is a reflection of much later theological disputes that theologically, have never been completely resolved. And the victors, the Orthodox (church orthodox) prevailed only exclusively by police measures as always. I am the Father in the bosom is lost in translation, hinting both at Jehovah and at the pregnancy of God with his Son. But in fact ὁ κόλπος πατήρ literally means the one who is on the fathers chest, that is, simply beloved. He revealed: ἐκεῖνος he who; ἐξηγέομαι to tell, show. So, in sum: No one has ever seen God; the only beloved son told about Him.