9The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
10The Word was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world didn’t recognize Him.
11He came to His own, and those who were His own didn’t receive Him.
12But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in His name:
13who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14The Word became flesh and lived among us, and we saw His glory, the glory as of the only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
15John testified about Him. He cried out, saying, “This was He who I told you about when I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’”
16From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace.
17The Law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
18No one has ever seen God, but God’s only born Son, who is near to the heart of His Father, has made Him known.
19Now this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
20He confessed, and didn’t deny, but confessed, “I’m not the Christ.”
21They asked him, “Then who are you? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.”
22Then they asked him, “Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
23John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, “I am the voice of one calling in the desert, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”
24Now those who were sent were Pharisees.
25They asked him, saying, “Why then do you baptize if you aren’t the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
26John answered them, saying, “I baptize with water, but One stands among you that you don’t know.
27It is He who, coming after me, is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to untie.”
28This all happened at Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
29The next day, John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Look! God’s Lamb who takes away the sin of the world!
John 1
John 1:9-29