John 1:1–28

In the beginning was the Word: and the Word was with God: and the Word was God.

²The same was in the beginning with God.

³All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made.

⁴In him was life: and the life was the light of men.

⁵And the light shineth in darkness: and the darkness did not comprehend it.

⁶There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

⁷This man came for a witness, to give testimony of the light, that all men might believe through him.

⁸He was not the light, but was to give testimony of the light.

⁹That was the true light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world.

¹⁰He was in the world: and the world was made by him: and the world knew him not.

¹¹He came unto his own: and his own received him not.

¹²But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in his name.

¹³Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

¹⁴And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (and we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth.

¹⁵John beareth witness of him and crieth out, saying: This was he of whom I spoke: He that shall come after me is preferred before me: because he was before me.

¹⁶And of his fulness we all have received: and grace for grace.

¹⁷For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

¹⁸No man hath seen God at any time: the only begotten Son who is in the Bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

¹⁹And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites to him, to ask him: Who art thou?

²⁰And he confessed and did not deny: and he confessed: I am not the Christ.

²¹And they asked him: What then? Art thou Elias? And he said: I am not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered: No.

²²They said therefore unto him: Who art thou, that we may give an answer to them that sent us? What sayest thou of thyself?

²³He said: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaias.

²⁴And they that were sent were of the Pharisees.

²⁵And they asked him and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?

²⁶John answered them, saying: I baptize with water: but there hath stood one in the midst of you, whom you know not.

²⁷The same is he that shall come after me, who is preferred before me: the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to loose.

²⁸These things were done in Bethania, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.