Biblioblogger James F. McGrath has posted an interesting thought on the Prologue, he argues that the author of the Prologue may have referred to Jesus’ baptism when writing, “the word became flesh”. He says:
This was a common interpretation among early Christians (although rejected by developing orthodoxy, it was maintained in the Jewish-Christian Pseudo-Clementine literature, which regularly uses Johannine language in reference to Jesus). But more importantly than that, in the context of Jewish and developing Christian thought in the time when this Gospel was written, concepts like Word, Wisdom and Spirit were not clearly distinguished, and so many readers would have found “the Word became flesh” (John 1:14) a natural equivalent to what we are told slightly later, namely that the Spirit descended and remained on him (John 1:32). (For the full post see here: “When Did The Word Become Flesh?” )
For people who are interested in this, or generally interested in Christology I would highly recommend his soon-to-be released book called: The Only True God: Early Christian Monotheism in Its Jewish Context
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