John 1:14-18

We're often as Westerners more Pauline than Johannine in our immediate understandings of the importance of the kinds of points the Word makes.  For example, as those interested in the impact of people's actions, compared to the impact of their "mere" existence, we immediately will jump to disparagements of mere existence.  John in this passage (as well as the previous, 1:1-13) does not do that, but highlights the existence of the Word from the beginning, and the coming to be of things that have come into existence.  In our mentality, we'll ask "what does the Law" do, whereas John states as important that the Law came, and supposes we'll see the greater than the Law inference, from saying that grace and truth came to be through Jesus Christ.