Drop 001 · Verse 1
Genesis
"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."
Genesis 1:1 · ESV
✦
John
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
John 1:1 · ESV
Both open "In the beginning." Genesis shows what God did. John reveals who was there — the Word. The cosmos wasn't created by a force; it was spoken by a Person.
Visual Study Card
L&L
Drop 001 · Verse 2
Genesis
"The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters."
Genesis 1:2 · ESV
✦
John
"He was in the beginning with God."
John 1:2 · ESV
Before creation, formless void and darkness — the Spirit hovering. John confirms the Word was present in this pre-creation moment. Not created, but there. The Triune God already in motion.
Visual Study Card
L&L
Drop 001 · Verse 3
Genesis
"And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light."
Genesis 1:3 · ESV
✦
John
"All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made."
John 1:3 · ESV
"God said" = the Word spoke. John makes explicit what Genesis implies: the speech act of creation was through the Word. Nothing exists that wasn't made through Him.
Visual Study Card
L&L
Drop 001 · Verse 4
Genesis
"And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness."
Genesis 1:4 · ESV
✦
John
"In him was life, and the life was the light of men."
John 1:4 · ESV
God separates light from darkness — a physical act foreshadowing a spiritual reality. The life in the Word becomes the light of all humanity. A cosmic event becomes a personal promise.
Visual Study Card
L&L
Drop 001 · Verse 5
Genesis
"God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day."
Genesis 1:5 · ESV
✦
John
"The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."
John 1:5 · ESV
Genesis ends day one. John leaps forward: the light still shines — and every force of darkness in all of history has failed to extinguish it. The first day becomes the promise for every day.
Visual Study Card
L&L