This is the Bama podcast with Marty Salman and I'm his co-host, Brent Billings.

Today we are continuing our journey through the Gospel of John with the testimony of John the Baptist

and Jesus' call to his first disciples. Yes, siree. And we got out of last episode too quickly, Brent.

I didn't even read all the notes that I had. I wanted to circle back because we talked last episode

about the Logos, right? And we, I quoted a couple things out of Brian Godawa's book,

some notes about Herocletus. I read a little excerpt out of my archaeological study Bible from

Zondervin, which is out of print, but I read a little note there. And I forgot to read a whole

second note that I have. And whenever I talk about this, people are often for good reason, like,

what are your sources for all this Logos talk? So I had all these intentions of just reading

everybody else instead of just like talking about it myself. And then I forgot one. So here we

go. I'm going to go back. So you got to go back to last week's episode, everybody, in your mind,

go back to Logos. Here's a little note out of the same, the same study Bible, same archaeological

study Bible has this little side article as well. I really like how they worded this and packages

together. It says, it's John 1, John's theology of the word, Logos is rooted in the Old Testament,

but also addresses pressing philosophical concerns in the Greek world. The phrase in the beginning

was the word, obviously, Ecosgenesis 1, which records that God created simply by speaking. That is,

God created by means of His word. There can be little doubt that this is the primary background to

the use of Logos in John 1. God's word brought the universe into orderly existence. The Jewish

Targums who echo this understanding, maybe we want to link, maybe you can link a Wikipedia article

about what a Targum is. Brent, if you don't mind, I don't help everybody. Absolutely. The Jewish

Targums echo this understanding of the divine word. They frequently employ the term Memra,

derived from the Aramaic word for speak, to describe God's creative activity, and this may have

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