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¹ In [the] beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

² *He* was in the beginning with God.

³ All things received being through him, and without him not one [thing] received being which has received being.

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

⁵ And the light appears in darkness, and the darkness apprehended it not.

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

⁷ He came for witness, that he might witness concerning the light, that all might believe through him.

⁸ *He* was not the light, but that he might witness concerning the light.

⁹ The true light was that which, coming into the world, lightens every man.

¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world had [its] being through him, and the world knew him not.

¹¹ He came to his own, and his own received him not;

¹² but as many as received him, to them gave he [the] right to be children of God, to those that believe on his name;

¹³ who have been born, not of blood, nor of flesh's will, nor of man's will, but of God.

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we have contemplated his glory, a glory as of an only-begotten with a father), full of grace and truth;

¹⁵ (John bears witness of him, and he has cried, saying, This was he of whom I said, He that comes after me is preferred before me, for he was before me;)

¹⁶ for of his fulness we all have received, and grace upon grace.

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

¹⁸ No one has seen God at any time; the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, *he* hath declared [him].

¹⁹ And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites that they might ask him, Thou, who art thou?

²⁰ And he acknowledged and denied not, and acknowledged, I am not the Christ.

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

²² They said therefore to him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?

²³ He said, I [am] [the] voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the path of [the] Lord, as said Esaias the prophet.

²⁴ And they were sent from among the Pharisees.

²⁵ And they asked him and said to him, Why baptisest thou then, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?

²⁶ John answered them saying, I baptise with water. In the midst of you stands, whom ye do not know,

²⁷ he who comes after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to unloose.

²⁸ These things took place in Bethany, across the Jordan, where John was baptising.

²⁹ On the morrow he sees Jesus coming to him, and says, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

³⁰ He it is of whom I said, A man comes after me who takes a place before me, because he *was* before me;

³¹ and I knew him not; but that he might be manifested to Israel, therefore have I come baptising with water.

³² And John bore witness, saying, I beheld the Spirit descending as a dove from heaven, and it abode upon him.

³³ And I knew him not; but he who sent me to baptise with water, *he* said to me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and abiding on him, he it is who baptises with [the] Holy Spirit.

³⁴ And I have seen and borne witness that this is the Son of God.

³⁵ Again, on the morrow, there stood John and two of his disciples.

³⁶ And, looking at Jesus as he walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God.

³⁷ And the two disciples heard him speaking, and followed Jesus.

³⁸ But Jesus having turned, and seeing them following, says to them, What seek ye? And *they* said to him, Rabbi (which, being interpreted, signifies Teacher), where abidest thou?

³⁹ He says to them, Come and see. They went therefore, and saw where he abode; and they abode with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.

⁴⁰ Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard [this] from John and followed him.

⁴¹ He first finds his own brother Simon, and says to him, We have found the Messias (which being interpreted is Christ).

⁴² And he led him to Jesus. Jesus looking at him said, Thou art Simon, the son of Jonas; thou shalt be called Cephas (which interpreted is stone).

⁴³ On the morrow he would go forth into Galilee, and Jesus finds Philip, and says to him, Follow me.

⁴⁴ And Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.

⁴⁵ Philip finds Nathanael, and says to him, We have found him of whom Moses wrote in the law, and the prophets, Jesus, the son of Joseph, who is from Nazareth.

⁴⁶ And Nathanael said to him, Can anything good come out of Nazareth? Philip says to him, Come and see.

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says of him, Behold [one] truly an Israelite, in whom there is no guile.

⁴⁸ Nathanael says to him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said to him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig-tree, I saw thee.

⁴⁹ Nathanael answered and said to him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art the King of Israel.

⁵⁰ Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to thee, I saw thee under the fig-tree, believest thou? Thou shalt see greater things than these.

⁵¹ And he says to him, Verily, verily, I say to you, Henceforth ye shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of man.