ANSWER: The verse reads, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” A) “In the beginning” means in the beginning of time or before the world was created. B) “Was the Word” means that the Word, Jesus Christ, (John 1:14) was already in existence at the beginning of the creation. Paul tells us the same in Colossians 1:17, “He is before all things.” Micah 5:2, likewise, teaches that Jesus Christ (the Word) existed before all things, because He is eternal. He is called the Word because through Him the nature and purpose of Deity would be revealed and communicated to the world “and the Word was with God” means the Christ was in total and complete fellowship with the Father, and implies that He was a participant in the creation process (Colossians 1:16). (D) “and the Word was God” means that Christ possesses all the attributes of Deity, and is, therefore, God, and equal to the Father (John 10:36; Philippians 2:6).