The Original Greek

The first sentence of John's gospel was originally written in koine Greek... the international street language of the Eastern Mediterreanean.

"In the beginning was the word" is/was arche logos. The original Greek can be seen at this translation site.

For me these four syllables - ar che lo gos - suggest a primordial, mysterious, and powerful origin much better than the English equivalent.

Logos is accurately translated as word. It could also mean word to first century Greeks. But words had a greater power then than, I am sorry to say, they have today.

Logos is an expression of cosmological cause and purpose. Logos is the origin of the universe, the ground of being and source of all creation.

Arche is beginning, origin, an active cause, a foundational concept, and guiding purpose. Arche logos is orgin of origin.