John 1:1-28

Darby Translation

1 In [the] beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

² *He* was in the beginning with God.

³ All things received being through him, and without him not one [thing] received being which has received being.

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

⁵ And the light appears in darkness, and the darkness apprehended it not.

⁶ There was a man sent from God, his name John.

⁷ He came for witness, that he might witness concerning the light, that all might believe through him.

⁸ *He* was not the light, but that he might witness concerning the light.

⁹ The true light was that which, coming into the world, lightens every man.

¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world had [its] being through him, and the world knew him not.

¹¹ He came to his own, and his own received him not;

¹² but as many as received him, to them gave he [the] right to be children of God, to those that believe on his name;

¹³ who have been born, not of blood, nor of flesh's will, nor of man's will, but of God.

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we have contemplated his glory, a glory as of an only-begotten with a father), full of grace and truth;

¹⁵ (John bears witness of him, and he has cried, saying, This was he of whom I said, He that comes after me is preferred before me, for he was before me;)

¹⁶ for of his fulness we all have received, and grace upon grace.

¹⁷ For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth subsists through Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ No one has seen God at any time; the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, *he* hath declared [him].

¹⁹ And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites that they might ask him, Thou, who art thou?

²⁰ And he acknowledged and denied not, and acknowledged, I am not the Christ.

²¹ And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he says, I am not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered, No.

²² They said therefore to him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?

²³ He said, I [am] [the] voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the path of [the] Lord, as said Esaias the prophet.

²⁴ And they were sent from among the Pharisees.

²⁵ And they asked him and said to him, Why baptisest thou then, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?

²⁶ John answered them saying, I baptise with water. In the midst of you stands, whom ye do not know,

²⁷ he who comes after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to unloose.

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