John 1:9-29

⁹There was a very light, which enlighteneth each man that cometh into this world.

¹⁰He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

¹¹He came into his own things, and his received him not.

¹²But how many ever received him, he gave to them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in his name;

¹³the which not of bloods, neither of the will of flesh, neither of the will of man, but be born of God.

¹⁴And the word, that is, God’s son, was made man or flesh, 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.

¹⁵John beareth witnessing of him, and crieth, and saith, This is he of whom I said, He that shall come after me, is made before me, for he was before me;

¹⁶and of the plenty of him we all have taken, and grace for grace.

¹⁷For the law was given by Moses; but grace and truth is made by Jesus Christ.

¹⁸No man saw ever or ever saw God, but the one begotten Son, that is in the bosom of the Father, he hath told out.

¹⁹And this is the witnessing of John, when Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and deacons to him, that they should ask him, Who art thou?

²⁰He acknowledged, and denied not, and he acknowledged, For I am not Christ.

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

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

²³He said, I am a voice of a crier or a voice of a man crying in desert, Dress ye the way of the Lord, as Isaiah the prophet, 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 Elijah, neither a 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;

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

²⁸These things were done in Bethany beyond or over Jordan, where John was baptizing.

²⁹Another 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.