Jehovah's Witnesses translate John 1:1, "...the Word was a god," rather than, "... the Word was God." But the earliest Church writers, who studied with John or his disciples, wrote that Jesus was God.
Polycarp, disciple of John, wrote in his Epistle at 12.2 that Jesus is God. Iranaeus, disciple of Polycarp, wrote in Adversus Haereses (Against Heresies), that Jesus Christ was “,,, perfect God and perfect man.” Pliny the Younger, in correspondence with the emperor Trajan, says that the Christians praise Jesus as God, and Justin Martyr says that Jesus is the Word incarnate.
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