1 In the beginning was the word, that is, God’s son, (or God’s Son), and the word was at God, and God was the word.
2 This (Word) was in the beginning at (or with) God.
3 All things were made by him, and without him was made nothing or nought, (of) that thing that was made. (Everything was made by him, and without him nothing was made, out of all that was made.)
4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men;
5 and the light shineth in darknesses, and the darknesses comprehended not it. (and the light shineth in the darkness, but the darkness did not understand it.)
6 A man was sent from God, to whom the name was John.
7 This man came into witnessing, that he should bear witnessing of the light, that all men should believe by him. (This man came as a witness, that he would testify about the light, so that all men could believe through him.)
8 He was not that light, but that he should bear witnessing of the light. (He was not that light, but he testified about the light.)
9 There was a very light (or There was a true light), which (en)lighteneth each man that cometh into this world.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
11 He came into his own things, and his (own) received him not.
12 But how many ever received him, he gave to them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in his name (or to those who believe in him);
13 the which not of bloods, neither of the will of (the) flesh, neither of the will of man, but be born of God. (who be born not of blood, nor by the desire of the flesh, nor by the desire of man, but be born of God.)
14 And the word was made man, and dwelled among us, and we have seen the glory of him, as the glory of the one begotten Son of the Father, full of grace and of truth. And the word, that is, God’s son, (or God’s Son), is made flesh, or man, and hath dwelled in us, and we have seen the glory of him, the glory as of the one begotten of the Father, the son (or the Son) full of grace and truth.
15 John beareth witnessing of him, and crieth, and saith, (or John testified about him, and cried out, and said), This (man) is he of whom I said, He that shall come after me, is made before me, for he was before me;
16 and of the plenty of him we all have taken, and grace for grace. (and all of us have received so much from him, blessing upon blessing.)
17 For the law was given by Moses; but grace and truth is made by Jesus Christ.
18 No man saw ever God or No man ever saw God, no but the one begotten Son, that is in the bosom of the Father, he hath told out (about him).