All things came into being through him (John 1:3)

Says The verse makes one claim twice, first positively and then negatively. πάντα δι᾽ αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο (panta di' autou egeneto): "all things came into being through him." χωρὶς αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο οὐδὲ ἕν (chōris autou egeneto oude hen): "without him not one thing came into being." διά with the genitive presents the Word as the one through whom God's creating was done.

Implies The double statement leaves no exception. If not one thing that came to be came to be without him, then he is not himself one of the things that came to be. John here gives the Word the role that God's spoken word has in Gen 1, where each act begins "and God said" (וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, vayyo'mer elohim), and in Ps 33:6, 9, where "he spoke, and it came to be" (note.language.John.1.3.creation-by-speech; note.language.John.1.3.davar-yhwh-creative; xref.John.1.3.Gen.1.3.heb; xref.John.1.3.Ps.33.6.heb; xref.John.1.3.Ps.33.9.heb). Wisdom's presence at creation (Prov 3:19; 8:27–30) is a further, thematic parallel (xref.John.1.3.Prov.3.19.heb; xref.John.1.3.Prov.8.27-Prov.8.30.heb). The same confession appears elsewhere in the New Testament (1 Cor 8:6; Col 1:16; Heb 1:2).

Our running text closes the sentence with ὃ γέγονεν (ho gegonen, "that has come into being"), as the BSB does: "without Him nothing was made that has been made." Says γέγονεν is perfect ("has come to be and remains"), unlike the aorist ἐγένετο (note.language.John.1.3-John.1.4.ho-gegonen).

Uncertain Whether John meant ὃ γέγονεν to close 1:3 or to open 1:4 ("what has come into being in him was life"), which is SBLGNT's punctuation and the earlier attested patristic division. The team prints the 1:3 division with low confidence, on grounds of sense and Johannine style (var.John.1.3-John.1.4.ho-gegonen). Implies On either punctuation, everything that exists owes its existence to the Word, and life is found "in him." Whether LXX Gen 1:3 καὶ ἐγένετο is consciously echoed is not relied on (note.language.John.1.3.creation-by-speech).