John 1:9-14

9The real light, which shines on everyone, was coming into the world.

10He was in the world, and the world came into existence through him. Yet, the world didn’t recognize him.

11He went to his own people, and his own people didn’t accept him.

12However, he gave the right to become God’s children to everyone who believed in him.

13These people didn’t become God’s children in a physical way—from a human impulse or from a husband’s desire ⌞to have a child⌟. They were born from God.

14The Word became human and lived among us. We saw his glory. It was the glory that the Father shares with his only Son, a glory full of kindness  and truth.