John 1:1-29

In the beginning  was the Word,  and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning.  All things were created  through him,  and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created. In him was life,  , and that life was the light  of men. That light shines  in the darkness, and yet the darkness did not overcome  it.  There was a man sent from God whose name was John.  He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that all might believe through him.  He was not the light, but he came to testify  about the light. The true light  that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.  , He was in the world, and the world was created  through him, and yet the world did not recognize him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive  him,  he gave them the right  to be  children  of God,  to those who believe  in his name,  who were born,  not of natural descent,  or of the will  of the flesh,  or of the will of man,  but of God.  The Word  became flesh  and dwelt  among us. We observed his glory,  the glory as the one and only  Son  from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John testified concerning him and exclaimed, “This was the one of whom I said, ‘The one coming after me  ranks ahead of me,  because he existed before me.’ ”)  Indeed, we have all received grace  upon  grace from his fullness, for the law was given through Moses;  grace and truth  came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God. The one and only  Son, who is himself God and is at the Father’s  side   #— #he has revealed him.  This was John’s testimony when the Jews from Jerusalem  sent priests  and Levites  to ask him, “Who are you? ” He didn’t deny it but confessed, “I am not the Messiah.”  “What then? ” they asked him. “Are you Elijah? ”  “I am not,” he said. “Are you the Prophet? ”  “No,” he answered. “Who are you, then? ” they asked. “We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What can you tell us about yourself? ” He said, “I am a voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord   ,  #— #just as Isaiah  the prophet said.” Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.  So they asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you aren’t the Messiah, or Elijah, or the Prophet? ” “I baptize with  water,”  John answered them. “Someone stands among you, but you don’t know him. He is the one coming after me,  , whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to untie.” All this happened in Bethany  across the Jordan,  where John was baptizing. The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God,  who takes away the sin  of the world!

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