John 1:20-44

²⁰He acknowledged, and denied not, and he acknowledged, For I am not Christ. (He confessed, and did not deny it, yea, he confessed, I am not the Messiah.)

²¹And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? (or Elijah?) And he said, I am not. Art thou a prophet? or Art thou the prophet? (or Art thou the Prophet?) And he answered, Nay.

²²Therefore they said to him, Who art thou? (So) That we (can) give an answer to these that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?

²³He said, I am a voice of a crier in desert, Dress ye the way of the Lord, as Esaias the prophet, said. He saith, I am a voice of a man crying in desert, Dress ye the way of the Lord, as Esaias, the prophet, said. (He said, I (am) a voice of a (man) crying in the desert, Align or Make straight the way of the Lord, as the prophet Isaiah said.)

²⁴And they that were sent, were of the Pharisees.

²⁵And they asked him, and said to him, What then baptizest thou, if thou art not Christ, neither Elias, neither a prophet? (And they asked him, Why then do thou baptize, if thou art not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?)

²⁶John answered to them, and said, I baptize in water, but in the middle of you hath stand or stood one, that ye know not; (John answered them, and said, I baptize in water, but in the midst of you hath stood one, whom ye know not;)

²⁷he it is, that shall come after me, that was made before me, of whom I am not worthy to loose(n) the thong of his shoe.

²⁸These things were done in Bethany beyond, or over, (the) Jordan, where John was baptizing. (These things were done in Bethany on the other side of the Jordan River, where John was baptizing.)

²⁹Another (or The next) day John saw Jesus coming to him, and he said, Lo! the lamb of God; lo! he that doeth away the sins of the world.

³⁰This is he, that I said of, After me is come a man or After me cometh a man, which was made before me; for he was rather or former than I (or for he already was, before that I was).

³¹And I knew him not, but that he be showed in Israel, therefore I came baptizing in water.

³²And John bare witnessing, and said, I saw the Spirit coming down as a culver from heaven, and (it) dwelled on him or and dwelling upon him. (And John testified, and said, I saw the Spirit coming down like a dove from heaven, and dwelling upon him.)

³³And I knew him not; but he that sent me to baptize in water, said to me, On whom thou seest the Spirit coming down, and dwelling on him, this is he, that baptizeth in the Holy Ghost, (or this is he, who baptizeth with the Holy Spirit).

³⁴And I saw, and bare witnessing (or and I testify), that this is the Son of God.

³⁵Another day John stood, and two of his disciples;

³⁶and he beheld Jesus walking, and saith, Lo! the lamb of God.

³⁷And (the) two disciples heard him speaking, and they followed Jesus.

³⁸And Jesus turned, and saw them (pur)suing him, and saith to them, What seek ye? And they said to him, Rabbi, that is to say, Master, where dwellest thou? (And Jesus turned, and saw them following him, and said to them, What do ye seek? And they said to him, Teacher, where do you live?)

³⁹And he saith to them, Come ye, and see. And they came, and saw where he dwelled; and dwelt with him that day. And it was as the tenth hour. (And he said to them, Come, and see. And they came, and saw where he lived; and remained with him that day. And it was about four o’clock in the afternoon.)

⁴⁰And Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the twain, that heard of John, and had (pur)sued him. (And Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two, who had heard that from John, and had followed him.)

⁴¹This found first his brother Simon, and he said to him, We have found Messias, that is to say, Christ; (And at once he found his brother Simon, and he said to him, We have found the Messiah, that is to say, the Christ;)

⁴²and he led him to Jesus. And Jesus beheld him, and said, Thou art Simon, the son of Johanna (or the son of John); thou shalt be called Cephas, that is to say, Peter.

⁴³And on the morrow he would go out into Galilee, and he found Philip; and he saith to him, (Pur)Sue thou me, (or and Jesus said to him, Follow me).

⁴⁴Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and of Peter.