Lest there be any confusion, John tells us explicitly that in the beginning, “the Word was God.” But we also read that this One who was God in the beginning, was also “with God.” As in Exodus 3, where the angel of the Lord is himself the Lord, so also here in John’s prologue, we are introduced to One who is both God and distinguished from God. Given what we understand explicitly in the New Testament, we can see that John is explaining to us part of what it means that God is triune.
