And the Word became flesh
and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten
of the Father, full of grace and truth. John
bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who
comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.’” (John 1: 14-15)
The Son of God who was
from eternity became human, with limitations in time and space (Phil. 2:5–8).
This is the doctrine of the incarnation: God became human. Nothing of the
essential nature of deity was lost in this event; we might rephrase became as
“took to Himself.” John uses the word flesh to refer to the physical nature of
humans, not to our sinful disposition (Rom. 8:1–11).
