John 1:9-29

⁹There was a very light (or There was a true light), which (en)lighteneth 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 (own) 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 (or to those who believe in him);

¹³the 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.)

¹⁴And 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.

¹⁵John 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;

¹⁶and 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.)

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

¹⁸No 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).

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

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.