Daily Discipleship - Day 359: The Word Became Flesh
May 3, 2026
Daily Discipleship • Day 359 • Saturday, April 24, 2027
The Word Became Flesh
John 1:14
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BibleProject — Tim Mackie and Jon Collins' biblical literacy platform, whose visual explanation of the Logos hymn and its connection to Genesis 1 and the temple theology of John helps readers grasp the full weight of the incarnation.
ἐσκήνωσεν
eskēnŏsen · Greek NT“dwelt / tabernacled / pitched his tent”
skēnoŏ (from skēnē, tent/tabernacle) means to take up residence in a tent—the very word used for the wilderness tabernacle. John deliberately echoes Exodus 25:8 ('let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them'). The incarnation is the fulfillment of the tabernacle: God dwelling in the midst of His people, now in human flesh.
John's prologue is among the most profound passages in all of Scripture. The Logos who was with God in the beginning, through whom all things were made, became flesh—entered the material world as a specific human being. The divine tented among us. And those who were there saw His glory: grace and truth, not condemnation and law.
BibleProject shows how 'tabernacled among us' connects directly to the Exodus narrative: God's presence that filled the tabernacle now fills a human body. The temple is a person. Every longing in the Old Testament for God to dwell among His people is answered in John 1:14. The Word became what we are so that we might become what He is.
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