John 1:4

Verse 4. In him was life. The evangelist had just affirmed Joh 1:3 that by the Logos or Word the world was originally created. One part of that creation consisted in breathing into man the breath of life, Ge 2:7. God is declared to be life, or the living God, because he is the source or fountain of life. This attribute is here ascribed to Jesus Christ. He not merely made the material worlds, but he also gave life. He was the agent by which the vegetable world became animated; by which brutes live; and by which man became a living soul, or was endowed with immortality.