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There came a man (egeneto anthrōpos). Definite event in the long darkness, same verb in Joh 1:3.
Sent (apestalmenos). Perfect passive participle of apostellō, to send.
From God (para theou). From the side of (para) God (ablative case theou).
Whose name (onoma autōi). “Name to him,” nominative parenthetic and dative (Robertson, Grammar, p. 460).
John (Iōanēs). One n in Westcott and Hort. In the giving of the name see Luk 1:59-63, Hellenized form of Jonathan, Joanan (Gift of God), used always of the Baptist in this Gospel which never mentions the name of John son of Zebedee (the sons of Zebedee once, Joh 21:2).