The only important thing is John's intended message not your personal desires or what you wish he is saying. John is introducing THE MINISTRY OF JESUS from the first three words of verse 1 through to the end of verse 18. At John 1:18 he makes a summary statement about what he has been talking about for the first 17 verses. No one has ever seen God but the fleshly man Jesus declared the Father and made Him known. The word proclaimed WAS God. The "beginning" in question is the ministry of Jesus, where the Christian faith began. What he is introducing in his prologue is the Father-Son project we see throughout his Gospel, that is, how the word proclaimed by Jesus was the Father making Himself known to the world through a body of flesh. The Father's word became flesh, that is, his word, the expression of He Himself, was manifested in the flesh named Jesus, the word became flesh.

But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, SO THAT you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven" Matthew 5:44.

Section 1 - 1:1-5 Introductory Statement - what John's Gospel is about, the ministry of Jesus
Section 2 - 1:6-13 The Father, the True Light, was coming into the world to make Himself known
Section 3 1:14-17 The only begotten, the fleshly man Jesus, is HOW the Father did it
Summary Statement 1:18 No one has ever seen the Father but the only begotten, the man of flesh Jesus, expresses him.


1:1a - the beginning is the beginning of our faith, the beginning of Christianity which is the ministry of Jesus
1:1a - the word is the word proclaimed by Jesus, his food/bread was to do the will of the Father and finish his work
1:1b the word which will be proclaimed was pros the Father because it is the Father who will be expressing Himself through Jesus
1:1c the word was God - the word proclaimed by Jesus was the Father, making the Father known to the world. The Father expressed himself through the man Jesus who spoke the Father's words and did the Father's works. In this way, the Father made Himself known - His light, His truth, His life, His love.
1:3 Everything which came to pass did come to pass through the word proclaimed by Jesus. The things coming to pass pertains to things which constituted "the beginning," that is, the beginning of Christianity, the new creation of God where Jesus is the firstfruits.

1:10 The Father was in the world and the world came to be through Him and the world did not know the Him. 1 John 3:1; John 17:25. Jesus was not alone; the Father was with him, abiding in Him, and the Father did His mighty works through that flesh named Jesus.
1:11 Israel was God's own possession. Bible 101.
1:12-13 Jesus came in the name of his Father. The Father's name was His character, His light, His truth, His life, His love. Jesus the man expressed these things, that is, he expressed the Father, the name of the Father (His character), and that is why Jesus said "the name you gave me." Jesus expressed the Father's character to us, especially His love. To believe in the name of Jesus is itself to believe in the name of the Father because Jesus expressed who/what the Father is.
Those who believed were begotten of God. Jesus is the first man who was begotten of God and he was the only begotten during his ministry which is why verse 13 discussing those begotten of God transitions to verse 14 introducing the only begotten son.
1:14 Jesus' food was to do the Father's will (4:33-34). When you eat bread, it becomes you, your flesh. The bread is the Father's word. Jesus ate this bread by doing it (4:34). In this way, the word became flesh because he embodied the Father's word by always doing it. Again, this language refers to the Father making Himself known through Jesus because doing the Father's will was making the Father known to the world. He was the Father's word in fleshly form.