"In the beginning was the Word" — John opens with the most famous sentence in Greek, written in language simple enough for a first-year student and deep enough for a lifetime.
The whole Gospel — all 21 chapters, 879 verses. The original Koine Greek, a word-by-word gloss with transliteration, fluent English, and a clickable dictionary.
❦ Read the Gospel of JohnA taste of the format — open the reader above to read all of The Gospel of John word by word.
The words that carry the book. Learn these and most of the text opens up; each links, in the reader, to its full entry. Counts are how often the word appears.
John is the traditional first book for anyone learning New Testament Greek: short sentences, a small vocabulary, endless repetition of a few luminous words — light, life, truth, world, word. You can genuinely read it early, and it rewards you forever.
It is also the most intimate of the gospels — the wedding at Cana, the woman at the well, Lazarus called out of the tomb, the beloved disciple at the table. The interlinear lets those scenes unfold at the pace of the original breath.
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