Mundane to the autoptic gospel is John’s use of repetition (arguably a poetic device). From the beginning, his provocative anaphoric use of use of “word” serves to conjoin the notions of the provocative term ‘logos’ (Greed Greek for ‘word’) and the repetition serves to “underline the thought he would communicate.” John’s penchant for Hebrew parallelism is a prominent hallmark of style in the first ten lines of his gospel narrative. This parallelism whether meant to capture the attention of Hellenized Jews, or simply be provocative in nature to any audience also serve to set John’s narrative apart from its synoptic cousins which share more provincial openings. Beasley-Murray (1987) posits the “poetic quality of the prologue is observable, even in translation.” And, in fact, C.F. Burney (1922) maintains John’s poetic style is indicative of an “Aramaic original.”