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the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 All things were created through Him; without Him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In Him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not overcome it.
6 There was a man who was sent from God named John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning the light, so that through him all men might believe. 8 He himself was not the light; he came to bear witness to the light. 9 The true light, who gives light to every man was coming into the world.
10 He was in the world, and the world was created through Him, yet the world did not recognize Him. 11 He came to that which was His own, but His own people did not receive Him. 12 Yet to all who received Him, who believed in His name, He gave the right to become the children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
15 John testified concerning Him, and he cried out, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, because He was before me’.” 16 From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God. But God the only Son, who is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
19 This is the testimony given by John, when the Jews from Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him, “Who are you?” 20 He confessed, and did not deny, but he confessed, “I am not the Christ.”
21 So they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?”
He said, “I am not.”
“Are you the Prophet?”
He answered, “No.”
22 Finally they said to him, “Who are you? We need an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
23 He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord’, as the prophet Isaiah said.”
24 Now those who were sent were from the Pharisees. 25 So they asked him, “Why then are you baptising if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
26 “I baptise with water,” John replied, “but among you stands one you do not know. 27 He is the One who comes after me, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”
28 This took place in Bethany across the Jordan where John was baptising.
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 30 This is the One of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who has surpassed me, because He was before me. 31 I myself did not know Him, but the reason I came baptising with water was that He might be revealed to Israel.”
32 And John testified, “I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and He remained on Him. 33 I myself did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptise with water told me, ‘The One on whom you see the Spirit descend down and remain on is He who will baptise with the Holy Spirit’. 34 I have seen and I testify that this is the Son of God.”
35 The next day John was standing there again with two of his disciples, 36 and looking at Jesus as He walked by, he exclaimed, “Behold the Lamb of God!”
37 The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus. 38 When Jesus turned around and saw them following, He asked, “What do you want?”
They said to Him, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are You staying?”
39 “Come,” He replied, “and You will see.”
So they went and saw where He was staying, and they remained with Him that day. It was about the tenth hour.
40 Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who had heard what John had said, and he followed Jesus. 41 He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (that is, the Christ). 42 And he brought Simon to Jesus.
Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You shall be called Cephas” (which is translated, Peter).
43 The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow Me.”
44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town Andrew and Peter were from. 45 Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One whom Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
46 “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Nathanael asked.
“Come and see,” Philip answered.
47 When Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is nothing false.”
48 “How do You know me?” Nathanael asked.
Jesus answered, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
49 Nathanael declared: “Rabbi, You are the Son of God! You are the king of Israel!”
50 Jesus said, “Do you believe because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree’? You will see greater things than that.” 51 Then He said, “I tell you the truth, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”