The Logos as Locus for God's Glory, with Denis Salgado: John 1:14

We are in the prologue.

I'm an elder in my church, and a while ago I was slated to preach, and I claim this passage.

I just love the prologue.

It's so rich, right? It's where John sets up the tone for the whole gospel.

Mm-hmm.

And you can trace the themes that he mentions here in the prologue.

You can find those across the gospel.

It's fascinating how as you go through the gospel of John, you can always go back to the prologue.

So it's his introduction.

It's John introducing the Logos, right? Jesus Christ who became flesh and dwelt among us, right? Who brought heaven down, right?

Now, that's the text that we're going to be looking at today, John 1, 14.

Let's read the text together.

And the word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory.

Glory is of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

There's a lot of really interesting things going on in that text that we could talk about, but we're going to talk about that word today that's translated dwelt among

Yes, and you will see different translations for that, and there's a reason why you will find, took up residence or dwelt, or some will say, yeah, just lived among us.

It's basically the verb skenol in Greek.

It's an interesting verb because it's not the typical verb that you find in the New Testament to convey the idea of dwelling, of living.

For that idea, you usually go with katoikeo, right? It occurs over 700 times in the New Testament exactly to express that, you know, they lived or he lived over here, dwelt in this place.

Really, basically, he made his house there.

Yes, exactly.

In a way.

Yes.

So that's what you kind of expect, lived or dwelt over there.

Right.