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He was in the beginning with God.
[a]All things came to be through him,
    and without him nothing came to be.(A)
What came to be through him was life,
    and this life was the light of the human race;(B)

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  1. 1:3 What came to be: while the oldest manuscripts have no punctuation here, the corrector of Bodmer Papyrus P75, some manuscripts, and the Ante-Nicene Fathers take this phrase with what follows, as staircase parallelism. Connection with Jn 1:3 reflects fourth-century anti-Arianism.