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 without Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being.

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

⁵And the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not grasped it.

⁶There came a man sent from God; the name to him was John.

⁷He came as a witness, so that he might testify concerning the Light, so that all might trust through him.

⁸He was not the Light, but came so that he might witness concerning the Light.

⁹The true Light, who enlightens every man, was coming into the world.

¹⁰He was in the world, and the world came into being through Him, and the world did not know Him.

¹¹To His own He came, and His own did not receive Him.

¹²However, as many as received Him, to them He gave authority to become children of God, to those trusting in his name,

¹³who were born not of blood, nor of the will of flesh, nor of the will of a man, but of God.

¹⁴And the word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, a glory as of an only begotten from the Father, full of favor and truth.

¹⁵John witnesses concerning Him and has cried out, saying, "This was He of whom I said, 'The One coming after me has come to be ahead of me, because He was before me.'"

¹⁶For from his fullness, we ourselves have all received, and favor in place of favor.

¹⁷For the law was given through Moses; the favor and the truth came through Jesus the Anointed One.

¹⁸No one has ever yet seen God; the only begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father, that One has made Him known.

¹⁹And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews from Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to him, so that they might ask him, "Who are you yourself?"

²⁰And he confessed and did not deny, but confessed, "I myself am not the Anointed One."

²¹And they asked him, "What then? Are you yourself Elijah?" And he says, "I am not." "Are you yourself 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 said, "I myself am a voice crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' even as Isaiah the prophet said."

²⁴And those who had been sent were from the Pharisees.

²⁵And they asked him and said to him, "Why then do you immerse, if you yourself are not the Anointed One, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"

²⁶John answered them, saying, "I myself immerse with water; but in your midst stands one whom you yourselves do not know,

²⁷He himself is the One coming after me, who has come to be ahead of me, whose sandal strap I myself am not worthy to untie."

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

²⁹On the next day John sees Jesus coming to him and says, "Behold the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world.

³⁰He it is concerning whom I myself said, 'After me comes a man, who has come to be ahead of 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 myself came immersing with water."

³²And John bore witness, saying, "I have beheld the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained upon Him."

³³And I myself did not know Him, but the One who sent me to immerse with water, that One said to me, 'The one on whom you may see the Spirit descending and abiding, this is the One who immerses with the Holy Spirit.'

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

³⁵On the next day John was standing again, and two of his disciples were with him.

³⁶And when he had looked at Jesus as He walked, he says, "Behold, the Lamb of God!"

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

³⁸Then Jesus, having turned and beheld them following, says to them, "What do you seek?" And they said to Him, "Rabbi" — which, translated, means Teacher — "where are You staying?"

³⁹He says to them, "Come, and you will behold." So they went and saw where He abides, and they stayed with Him that day. Now it was about the tenth hour.

⁴⁰Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who had heard from John and followed Him.

⁴¹He first finds his own brother Simon and says to him, "We have found the Messiah" — which, translated, is the Anointed One.

⁴²And he led him to Jesus. Now Jesus, having looked at him, said, "You yourself are Simon the son of John; you yourself will be called Cephas" — which means Peter.

⁴³On the next day He desired to go forth into Galilee, and He finds Philip, and Jesus says to him, "Follow Me."

⁴⁴Now Philip was from Bethsaida, from 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 also the prophets — Jesus the son of Joseph, from Nazareth."

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

⁴⁷Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him and says concerning him, "Behold, truly an Israelite, in whom there is no deceit."

⁴⁸Nathanael says to Him, "From where do You know me?" Jesus answered and said to him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

⁴⁹Nathanael answered Him and says, "Rabbi, You yourself are the Son of God, You yourself are the King of Israel."

⁵⁰Jesus answered and said to him, "Do you trust because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than these."

⁵¹And He says to him, "Amen, amen, I say to you all, from now on you will behold the heaven opened up and the messengers of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man."