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The Gospel according to John
John 1 · Complete
1 was , and the word was , and .
2This one was in the beginning with God.
3All things came to be through , and apart from him not even one thing came to be
4, and the life was the light of human beings.
5And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not it.
6There came to be a human, sent from God; his name was John.
7This one came for , so that he might bear witness concerning the light, so that all might trust through him.
8That one was not the light, but came so that he might bear witness concerning the light.
9The true light, which enlightens every human, was coming into the world.
10He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, and the world did not know him.
11He came to his own, and his own did not him.
12But as many as received him, to them he gave to become children of God—to those trusting in his name—
13who were born not from , nor from the will of flesh, nor from the will of a man, but from God.
14And the word became flesh and among us, and we beheld his glory—glory as of a from a father—full of grace and truth.
15John bears witness concerning him and has cried out, saying, “This was the one of whom I said, ‘The one coming after me has become before me, because he was before me.’”
16For from his fullness we all received, even .
17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came to be through Jesus Christ.
18No one has ever seen God; , the one being in the bosom of the Father, that one .
19And this is the witness of John, when sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to him so that they might ask him, “Who are you?”
20And he confessed and did not deny, and confessed, “I am not .”
21And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” And he says, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” And he answered, “No.”
22Therefore they said to him, “Who are you, so that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?”
23He declared, “I—a voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ just as Isaiah the prophet said.”
24And those having been sent were from the Pharisees.
25And they asked him and said to him, “Why then do you , if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”
26John answered them, saying, “I baptize in water. In your midst stands one whom you do not know—
27the one coming after me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loosen.”
28These things happened in beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
29On the next day he sees Jesus coming toward him and says, “Look: , the one the sin of the world.
30This is the one concerning whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who has become before me, because he was before me.’
31And I did not know him, but so that he might be revealed to Israel, because of this I came baptizing in water.”
32And John bore witness, saying, “I have beheld the descending as a dove from heaven, and it remained upon him.
33And I did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize in water—that one said to me, ‘Upon whomever you see the spirit descending and remaining upon him, this is the one who baptizes in holy spirit.’
34And I have seen and have borne witness that this one is .”
35On the next day John again stood with two of his disciples.
36And looking at Jesus walking, he says, “Look: the lamb of God.”
37And the two disciples heard him speaking and followed Jesus.
38But Jesus, having turned and observed them following, says to them, “What are you seeking?” And they said to him, “, where do you ?”
39He says to them, “Come, and you will see.” Therefore they came and saw where he remained, and they remained with him that day. It was .
40Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard from John and followed him.
41This one first finds his own brother Simon and says to him, “We have found the Messiah”—which is translated, .
42He brought him to Jesus. Having looked at him, Jesus said, “You are Simon, the son of John. You will be called .”
43On the next day Jesus wanted to go out into Galilee, and he finds Philip. And Jesus says to him, “Follow me.”
44Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
45Philip finds Nathanael and says to him, “We have found the one about whom Moses wrote in the law, and the prophets: Jesus, son of Joseph, the one from Nazareth.”
46And Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good be from Nazareth?” Philip says to him, “Come and see.”
47Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and says concerning him, “Look: truly an Israelite in whom there is no .”
48Nathanael says to him, “From where do you know me?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
49Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are king of Israel.”
50Jesus answered and said to him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you beneath the fig tree,’ you trust? You will see greater things than these.”
51And he says to him, “, I say to : you all will see heaven having been opened and ascending and descending upon .”
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