This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
 Again, it is not said that in the beginning He was, in the sense of then coming into being ( ἐγένετο ),   but He existed ( ἦν ). Thus before all time the Word was. When the great truth of the incarnation is noted in verse 14, it is said not that the Word came into existence, but that He was  made  ( ἐγένετο ) flesh began so to be. This, therefore, so much the more contrasts with verses 1 and 2.
