The Word Made Flesh Reveals the Father

1:2The same was in the beginning with God.

1:3All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.

1:4In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

1:5The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

1:6There came a man sent from God, whose name was John.

1:7The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.

1:8He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light.

1:9The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

1:10He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.

1:11He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.

1:12But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

1:13who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

1:14The Word became flesh and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the only born Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

1:15John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’”

1:16From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.

1:17For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

1:18No one has seen God at any time. The only born Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

1:19This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

1:20He declared, and didn’t deny, but he declared, “I am not the Christ.”

1:21They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” He answered, “No.”

1:22They said therefore to him, “Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

1:23He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”

1:24The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.

1:25They asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”

1:26John answered them, “I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don’t know.

1:27He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.”

1:28These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

1:29The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

1:30This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.’

1:31I didn’t know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water, that he would be revealed to Israel.”

1:32John testified, saying, “I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.

1:33I didn’t recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water said to me, ‘On whomever you will see the Spirit descending and remaining on him is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’

1:34I have seen and have testified that this is the Son of God.”

1:35Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples,

1:36and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”

1:37The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.

1:38Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, “What are you looking for?” They said to him, “Rabbi” (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), “where are you staying?”

1:39He said to them, “Come and see.” They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.

1:40One of the two who heard John and followed him was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.

1:41He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is, being interpreted, Christ ).

1:42He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas” (which is by interpretation, Peter).

1:43On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.”

1:44Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.

1:45Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

1:46Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”

1:47Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

1:48Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”

1:49Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”

1:50Jesus answered him, “Because I told you, ‘I saw you underneath the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these!”

1:51He said to him, “Most certainly, I tell you all, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

2:2Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the wedding.

2:3When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine.”

2:4Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.”

2:5His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.”

2:6Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.

2:7Jesus said to them, “Fill the water pots with water.” So they filled them up to the brim.

2:8He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast.” So they took it.

2:9When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn’t know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom

2:10and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!”

2:11This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

2:12After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.

2:13The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

2:14He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

2:15He made a whip of cords and drove all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money and overthrew their tables.

2:16To those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!”

2:17His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”

2:18The Jews therefore answered him, “What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?”

2:19Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

2:20The Jews therefore said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?”

2:21But he spoke of the temple of his body.

2:22When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.

2:23Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

2:24But Jesus didn’t entrust himself to them, because he knew everyone,

2:25and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.