John 1:1-18

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

2He was with God in the beginning.

3All things were created through him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created.

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

5That light shines in the darkness, and yet the darkness did not overcome it.

6There was a man sent from God whose name was John.

7He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that all might believe through him.

8He was not the light, but he came to testify about the light.

9The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.

10He was in the world, and the world was created through him, and yet the world did not recognize him.

11He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.

12But to all who did receive him, he gave them the right to be children of God, to those who believe in his name,

13who were born, not of natural descent, or of the will of the flesh, or of the will of man, but of God.

14The 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.

15(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.’”)

16Indeed, we have all received grace upon grace from his fullness,

17for the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

18No 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.