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John Chapter 1 001:001 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 001:002 The same was in the beginning with God. 001:003 All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made. 001:004 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
001:005 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome{The word translated "overcome" (katelaben) can also be translated "comprehended." It refers to getting a grip on an enemy to defeat him.} it. 001:006 There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. 001:007 The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him. 001:008 He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light.
001:009 The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world. 001:010 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn't recognize him. 001:011 He came to his own, and those who were his own didn't receive him. 001:012 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name: 001:013 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
001:014 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. 001:015 John testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.'" 001:016 From his fullness we all received grace upon grace. 001:017 For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 001:018 No one has seen God at any time.
The one and only Son,{NU reads "God"} who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him. 001:019 This is John's testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?" 001:020 He confessed, and didn't deny, but he confessed, "I am not the Christ." 001:021 They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No." 001:022 They said therefore to him, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us.
What do you say about yourself?" 001:023 He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,'{Isaiah 40:3} as Isaiah the prophet said." 001:024 The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees. 001:025 They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?" 001:026 John answered them, "I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don't know.
001:027 He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to loosen." 001:028 These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing. 001:029 The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
001:030 This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.' 001:031 I didn't know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel." 001:032 John testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.
001:033 I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.' 001:034 I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God." 001:035 Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples, 001:036 and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!" 001:037 The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
001:038 Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them, "What are you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), "where are you staying?" 001:039 He said to them, "Come, and see." They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.{4:00 PM.} 001:040 One of the two who heard John, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.
001:041 He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is, being interpreted, Christ{"Messiah" (Hebrew) and "Christ" (Greek) both mean "Anointed One".}). 001:042 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, "You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas" (which is by interpretation, Peter). 001:043 On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip.
Jesus said to him, "Follow me." 001:044 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.
001:045 Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." 001:046 Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." 001:047 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!" 001:048 Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." 001:049 Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God!
You are King of Israel!" 001:050 Jesus answered him, "Because I told you, 'I saw you underneath the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these!" 001:051 He said to him, "Most certainly, I tell you, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."