The original ending of the book (chapter 20) picks up the prologue at point after point: the light overcomes the darkness of the early morning, the light which is the true life of human beings. To those who receive him, Jesus gives the right to share his status: ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’157 Thomas finally puts into words what the whole book has been sketching out, ever since the prologue spoke of the incarnate logos as ‘the only-begotten god’: ‘My Lord, and my God.’158 The close fit between 1:1–18 and chapter 20 is, indeed, further reason for
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