John 1:1-27 ▼

1 In the begynnyng was the worde, & the worde was with God: and that worde was God.

2 The same was in the begynnyng with God.

3 All thynges were made by it: and without it, was made nothyng that was made.

4 In it was lyfe, and the lyfe was the lyght of men,

5 And the lyght shyneth in darkenesse: and the darknesse comprehended it not.

6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was Iohn:

7 The same came for a witnesse, to beare witnesse of the lyght, that all men through hym myght beleue.

8 He was not that lyght: but was sent to beare witnesse of the lyght.

9 That lyght was the true lyght, which lyghteth euery man that commeth into the worlde.

10 He was in the worlde, and the worlde was made by hym, and the worlde knewe hym not.

11 He came among his owne, and his owne receaued hym not.

12 But as many as receaued hym, to them gaue he power to be the sonnes of God, euen them that beleued on his name.

13 Which were borne, not of blood, nor of the wyll of the fleshe, nor yet of the wyll of man, but of God.

14 And the same word became fleshe, and dwelt among vs ( and we sawe the glory of it, as the glory of the only begotten sonne of the father) full of grace and trueth.

15 Iohn beareth witnesse of hym, and cryeth, saying: This was he of whom I spake, he that commeth after me, is preferred before me, for he was before me.

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

17 For the lawe was geuen by Moyses: but grace and trueth came by Iesus Christe.

18 No man hath seene God at any tyme: The onely begotten sonne which is in the bosome of the father, he hath declared hym.

19 And this is the recorde of Iohn: When the Iewes sent priestes and leuites from Hierusalem, to aske hym: What art thou?

20 And he confessed and denyed not, and sayde playnely, I am not that Christe.

21 And they asked hym: What then? art thou Elias? And he sayth, I am not. Art thou that prophete? And he aunswered, no.

22 Then sayde they vnto hym: What art thou? that we may geue an aunswere to them that sent vs: What sayest thou of thy selfe?

23 He sayde: I am the voyce of a cryer in the wildernesse, make strayght the way of the Lorde, as sayde the prophete Esaias.

24 And they which were sent, were of the pharisees.

25 And they asked hym, and sayde vnto hym: Why baptizest thou then, yf thou be not Christe, nor Elias, neither that prophete?

26 Iohn aunswered them, saying: I baptize with water, but there standeth one among you, whom ye knowe not,

27 He it is, which though he came after me, was before me, whose shoes latchet I am not worthy to vnloose.