ACCORDING TO JOHN.

I. 1-18.

1IN [the] beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word. 2 This was in

[the] beginning with God. All things through it arose into being, and without it arose not even one thing which has arisen.

In it is Life, and the Life was the Light of men. 5 And the Light shines on, in the Darkness; and the Darkness did not apprehend it.

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"There arose a man, sent from God, whose name was John. This [man] came for testimony, to bear testimony concerning the Light, that all should believe through him. He was not the Light, but [came] to bear testimony concerning the Light.

It was the true Light, which gives light to every man coming into the world. 10 It was in the world, and the world through it arose into being, and the world knew it not. "It came to its own peculiar [home], and its own peculiar [people] received it not. 12 But as many as received it, to them it gave authority to become children of God, -to those believing

on its name; 18who not of [particular] race, nor of will of flesh, nor of will of man, but of God, were born.

14 And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us - and we beheld his glory, a glory as of an only-begotten [proceeding] from [the presence of] a father-full of grace and truth. 15John testifies concerning him and exclaims, saying, This was [he] of whom I said, He who comes after me has come to be before me, because he was my superior. 16 Because out of his fulness we all received, even grace succeed

ing grace. 17 Because the Law was given through Moses: the Grace and the Truth arose through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God: the only-begotten Son, who is upon the bosom of the Father, he declared [Him].

I. 19-51.

19 AND this is the testimony of John, when the Jews of Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him, Who art thou? 20 And he confessed and denied not; and confessed, I am not the Christ. 21 And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elijah? He says, I am not. Art thou the Prophet? And he answered, No. 22 They said therefore to him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to those having sent us. sayest thou about thyself? 23 He said, I [am]

A Crier's voice in the Desert,

Make straight the way of [the] Lord!

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as said Isaiah the prophet. "And [some of those] sent

were of the Pharisees; 25 and they asked him and said to him, Why then dost thou baptize, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet? 26 John answered them, saying, I baptize in water. In the midst of you stands [one] whom you know not27 he who comes after me - the thong of whose sandal I am not fit to untie.

28 These things took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

29 The next day, he beholds Jesus coming to him, and says, See! the Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world! 30 This is [he] in behalf of whom I said, After me comes a man who has come to be before me, because he was my superior. 31 And I did not know him; but that he might be made manifest to Israel, for this came I baptizing in water. 82 And John bore testimony, saying, I have beheld the Spirit descending as a dove out of [the] sky, and it remained on him. 83 And I did not know him: but He who sent me to baptize in water, He said to me, Upon whomsoever thou see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, this is he who baptizes in [the] Holy Spirit. And I have seen, and have borne testimony, that this is the Son of God.

The next day, John was again standing, and two of his disciples; 36 and, looking at Jesus as he walked, he says, See! the Lamb of God! 87 The two disciples heard him as he spoke, and they followed Jesus. 86 Jesus, turning round and seeing them following, says to them, What are you seeking? And they

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said to him, Rabbi— that is to say, being interpreted, Teacher where art thou staying? 39 He says to them, Come, and you shall see. They accordingly came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day: it was about [the] tenth hour. 40 Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard from John and followed him: this [Andrew] first finds his own brother Simon, and says to him, We have found the Messiah that is, interpreted, Christ [i.e. Anointed]. "He led him to Jesus. Looking at him Jesus said, Thou art Simon, the son of John; thou shalt be called Kephas -which is interpreted Peter [i.e. a Stone].

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48 The next day, he wished to depart into Galilee, and he finds Philip; and says Jesus to him, Follow "Now Philip was from Bethsaïda, of the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip finds Nathanael and says to him, [Him] of whom Moses in the Law wrote, and the Prophets, we have found-Jesus, son of Joseph, who is from Nazareth. 46 Said Nathanael to him, Can there be any thing good out of Nazareth? Says Philip to him, Come and see. Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and he says of him, See! an Israelite in very truth, in whom is no guile! 48 Says Nathanael to him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said to him, Before Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig-tree, I saw thee. 49 Nathanael answered him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art King of Israel. "Jesus answered and said to

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him, Because I told thee that I saw thee underneath the fig-tree, believest thou?

Thou wilt see greater

things than these. 51 And he says to him, Verily, verily I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

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II.

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1AND on the third day, a wedding took place in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the wedding. And wine having fallen short, the mother of Jesus says to him, They have no wine. Says Jesus to her, What hast thou to do with me, woman? Not yet had my hour come. 5 Says his mother to the attendants, Whatever he may say to you, do. Now there were set there six stone water-jars, according to the Jews' [custom of] purification, containing two or three amphora apiece. Says Jesus to them, Fill they filled them to the

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the jars with water. brim. And he says to them, Draw now, and bear to the master of the feast. And they bore [it]. 'And as the master of the feast tasted the water become wine, and knew not whence it was, but the attendants knew, who drew the water, the master of the feast calls the bridegroom 10 and says to him, Every man first puts on the choice wine, and, whenever they become drunken, the inferior: thou hast kept the choice wine until now.

"This commencement of the signs did Jesus make in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory, and his disciples believed on him. 12 After this he went down to Kapharnaum, himself, and his mother, and his