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The opening verse of John is translated as " the Word was with God and the Word was God " in all orthodox and historical Bibles.

There are alternative views.

The explicit statement that Jesus was himself the Arche does not come from John's gospel but from the Letter to the Colossians.

The Scholar's Version of the gospel, developed by the Jesus Seminar, loosely translates the phrase as " The Logos was what God was ," offered as a better representation of the original meaning of the evangelist.