1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2He was in the beginning with God.
3All things came into being through him, and apart from him not one thing came into being that has come into being.
4In him was life, and the life was the light of humanity.
5And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
6There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.
7He came as a witness, to testify concerning the light, so that all might believe through him.
8He was not the light, but came to testify concerning the light.
9The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.
10He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, yet the world did not know him.
11He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.
12But to all who did receive him, to those who believe in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
13who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of the one and only from the Father, full of grace and truth.
15John testified about him and cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, because he was before me.’”
16For from his fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace.
17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came into being through Jesus Christ.
18No one has ever seen God; the one and only God, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.
19And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
20He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.”
21And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” And he said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.”
22So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
23He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”
24Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.
25They asked him and said to him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
26John answered them, saying, “I baptize in water, but among you stands one you do not know,
27the one who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.”
28These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
29The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
30This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who has surpassed me, because he was before me.’
31And I myself did not know him, but so that he might be revealed to Israel, for this reason I came baptizing with water.”
32And John bore witness, saying, “I have seen the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.
33And I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water, he said to me, ‘The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining, this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’
34And I have seen, and I have borne witness that this is the Chosen One of God.”
35The next day John was standing there again, and two of his disciples,
36and gazing at Jesus as he walked by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”
37The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
38Jesus turned, and seeing them following, he said to them, “What are you seeking?” They said to him, “Rabbi” (which is translated, “Teacher”), “where are you staying?”
39He said to them, “Come and you will see.” So they went and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.
40Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard John and followed him.
41He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated, “Christ”).
42He brought him to Jesus. Jesus gazed at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which is translated, “Peter”).
43The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. And he found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.”
44Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
45Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and also the prophets: Jesus son of Joseph, from Nazareth.”
46Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
47Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Look, a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit!”
48Nathanael said to him, “How 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 the King of Israel!”
50Jesus answered and said to him, “Do you believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than these.”
51And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you all, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
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