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¹THE Word was in the beginning, and that very Word was with God, and God was that Word. ²The same was in the beginning with God. ³Everything came to be by his hand; and without him not even one thing that was created came to be. ⁴The life was in him, and the life is the light of men. ⁵And the same light shines in darkness, and the darkness does not overcome it.

⁶There was a man, sent from God, whose name was John. ⁷He came as a witness to testify concerning the light, so that every man might believe by means of him. ⁸He was not the light, but a witness to testify concerning the light. ⁹He was the true light which lit every man who came into the world. ¹⁰He was in the world and the world was under his hand, yet the world did not know him. ¹¹He came to his own, and his own did not receive him. ¹²But those who received him, to them he gave power to become sons of God, especially to those who believed in his name, ¹³Those who are not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but born of God.

¹⁴And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we saw his glory, a glory like that of the firstborn of the Father, full of grace and truth. ¹⁵John witnessed concerning him and cried and said, This is the one whom I said, He is coming after me, yet he is ahead of me, because he was before me. ¹⁶And of his fullness we have all received, grace for grace. ¹⁷For the law was given by Moses; but truth and grace came into being by Jesus Messiah. ¹⁸No man has ever seen God; but the firstborn of God, who is in the embrace of his Father, he has declared him.

¹⁹This is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites to him from Jerusalem to ask him, Who are you? ²⁰And he confessed and did not deny it; but he declared, I am not the Messiah. ²¹Then they asked him again, What then? Are you Elijah? And he said, I am not. Are you a prophet? And he said, No. ²²Then they said to him, Who are you, that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say concerning yourself? ²³He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Straighten the highway of the Lord, as the prophet Isaiah said. ²⁴Those who were sent were from the Pharisees. ²⁵And they asked him, saying to him, Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Messiah nor Elijah nor a prophet? ²⁶John answered, saying to them, I baptize with water; but among you stands one whom you do not know; ²⁷This is the one who comes after me and is ahead of me, the one even the strings of whose shoes I am not good enough to untie. ²⁸These things happened in Bethany at the Jordan crossing, where John was baptizing.

²⁹The next day John saw Jesus coming to him, and he said, Look the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. ³⁰This is the one of whom I said, The man who comes after me is yet ahead of me, because he was before me. ³¹I did not know him; but that he might be made known to Israel, I came to baptize with water. ³²And John testified, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it rested on him. ³³Yet I did not know him; but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and resting, he is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit. ³⁴And I saw and testified that this is the Son of God.

³⁵The next day John was standing with 2 of his disciples; ³⁶And he looked at Jesus while he walked, and said, Look, the Lamb of God. ³⁷And when he said it, 2 of his disciples heard it; and they went after Jesus. ³⁸And Jesus turned around and saw them following him, and he said to them, What do you want? They said to him, Teacher, where do you live? ³⁹He said to them, Come, and you will see. And they came and saw where he stayed, and they remained with him that day; and it was about the 10th hour. ⁴⁰One of those who heard John and followed Jesus, was Andrew, the brother of Simon. ⁴¹He saw his brother Simon first, and said to him, We have found the Messiah. ⁴²And he brought him to Jesus. And Jesus looked at him and said, You are Simon the son of Jonah; you are called Stone.

⁴³The next day Jesus wanted to leave for Galilee, and he found Philip, and said to him, Follow me. ⁴⁴Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Simon. ⁴⁵Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, We have found that Jesus, the son of Joseph, of Nazareth, is the one concerning whom Moses wrote in the law and the prophets. ⁴⁶Nathanael said to him, Can anything good come out of Nazareth? Philip said to him, Come and you will see. ⁴⁷Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and he said of him, Look, truly an Israelite, in whom there is no guile. ⁴⁸Nathanael said to him, Where do you know me from? Jesus said to him, Even before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree, I saw you. ⁴⁹Nathanael answered, saying to him, Teacher, you are the Son of God, you are the King of Israel. ⁵⁰Jesus said to him, Do you believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than these. ⁵¹He said to him, Truly, truly, I say to all of you that from now on you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending to the Son of man.