John 1:9-29

⁹This was that true light, which lighteth euery man that commeth into the world.

¹⁰He was in the world, and the worlde was made by him: and the worlde knewe him not.

¹¹He came vnto his owne, and his owne receiued him not.

¹²But as many as receiued him, to them he gaue prerogatiue to be the sonnes of God, euen to them that beleeue in his Name.

¹³Which are borne not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of ye wil of man, but of God.

¹⁴And that Word was made flesh, and dwelt among vs, (and we sawe the glorie thereof, as the glorie of the onely begotten Sonne of the Father) full of grace and trueth.

¹⁵Iohn bare witnesse of him, and cryed, saying, This was he of whom I said, He that commeth after me, was before me: for he was better then I.

¹⁶And of his fulnesse haue all we receiued, and grace for grace.

¹⁷For the Lawe was giuen by Moses, but grace, and trueth came by Iesus Christ.

¹⁸No man hath seene God at any time: that onely begotten Sonne, which is in the bosome of the Father, he hath declared him.

¹⁹Then this is the record of Iohn, when the Iewes sent Priestes and Leuites from Hierusalem, to aske him, Who art thou?

²⁰And he confessed and denied not, and said plainely, I am not that Christ.

²¹And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he said, I am not. Art thou that Prophet? And he answered, No.

²²Then said they vnto him, Who art thou, that we may giue an answere to them that sent vs? What sayest thou of thy selfe?

²³He said, I am the voyce of him that cryeth in the wildernesse, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the Prophet Esaias.

²⁴Nowe they which were sent, were of the Pharises.

²⁵And they asked him, and saide vnto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, neither Elias, nor that Prophet?

²⁶Iohn answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there is one among you, whom ye knowe not.

²⁷He it is that commeth after me, which was before me, whose shoe latchet I am not worthie to vnloose.

²⁸These things were done in Bethabara beyond Iordan, where Iohn did baptize.

²⁹The next day Iohn, seeth Iesus comming vnto him, and saith, Beholde that Lambe of God, which taketh away the sinne of the world.