1 ^1:1IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ^1:2This [Word] was in the beginning with God. ^1:3All things existed through him, and without him not one thing existed, which existed. ^1:4In him was life, and the life was the light of men; ^1:5and the light shone in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.

2 ^1:6There was a man, sent by God, whose name was John. ^1:7This man came for a testimony, to testify of the light, that all might believe through him. ^1:8He was not the light, but to testify of the light. ^1:9The light was the true [light] which lights every man that comes into the world. ^1:10He was in the world, and the world existed through him, and the world knew him not. ^1:11He came to his own, and his own received him not. ^1:12But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become sons of God, to them that believe on his name, ^1:13who are born not of superior blood, nor of a will of the flesh, nor of a will of man, but of God.

3 ^1:14And the Word became flesh and tabernacled with us and we beheld his glory, a glory as of an only child with a father, full of grace and truth. ^1:15John testified of him, and cried, saying, This is the one of whom I said, He that comes after me existed before me, for he was before me. ^1:16For we all have received of his fullness, and grace for grace; ^1:17for the law was given by Moses, the grace and truth were by Jesus Christ. ^1:18No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he declared [him].