'Beginning' in the Bible
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
This beginning of signs Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee, and revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.
But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)
Now [when they] heard [it], being convicted by their conscience, they began to depart, one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone--and the woman who was in [their] midst.
So they began to say to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "{What} I have been saying to you [from] the beginning.
You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father! That one was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own [nature], because he is a liar and the father {of lies}.
And you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.