The Good News According to Yochanan, Chapter 1
{1:1} In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. {1:2} The same was in the beginning with God. {1:3}
All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made
that has been made. {1:4} In him was life, and the life was the light
of men. {1:5} The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness
hasn't overcome it. {1:6} There came a man, sent from God, whose name
was Yochanan. {1:7} The same came as a witness, that he might testify
about the light, that all might believe through him. {1:8} He was not
the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light. {1:9}
The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
{1:10} He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and
the world didn't recognize him. {1:11} He came to his own, and those
who were his own didn't receive him. {1:12} But as many as received
him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who
believe in his name: {1:13} who were born not of blood, nor of the
will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. {1:14} The Word
became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of
the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. {1:15}
Yochanan testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of
whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was
before me.'" {1:16} From his fullness we all received grace upon
grace. {1:17} For the Torah was given through Moshe. Grace and truth
came through Yeshua the Messiah. {1:18} No one has seen God at any
time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has
declared him.
{1:19} This is Yochanan's testimony, when the Judeans sent
[1>]kohanim[<1] and Levites from Yerushalayim to ask him, "Who are
you?"
{1:20} He confessed, and didn't deny, but he confessed, "I am not
the Messiah."
{1:21} They asked him, "What then? Are you Eliyahu?"
He said, "I am not."
"Are you the Prophet?"
He answered, "No."
{1:22} They said therefore to him, "Who are you? Give us an answer
to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"
{1:23} He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness,
'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as Yeshaiyahu the prophet said."
{1:24} The ones who had been sent were from the Perushim. {1:25}
They asked him, "Why then do you immerse, if you are not the Messiah,
nor Eliyahu, nor the Prophet?"
{1:26} Yochanan answered them, "I immerse in water, but among you
stands one whom you don't know. {1:27} He is the one who comes after
me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to
loosen." {1:28} These things were done in Beit-Anyah beyond the
Yarden, where Yochanan was immersing.
{1:29} The next day, he saw Yeshua coming to him, and said, "Behold,
the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! {1:30} This is
he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is preferred before me,
for he was before me.' {1:31} I didn't know him, but for this reason I
came immersing in water: that he would be revealed to Yisra'el."
{1:32} Yochanan testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending
like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him. {1:33} I didn't
recognize him, but he who sent me to immerse in water, he said to me,
'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him,
the same is he who immerses in the Holy Spirit.' {1:34} I have seen,
and have testified that this is the Son of God."
{1:35} Again, the next day, Yochanan was standing with two of his
[2>]talmidim[<2], {1:36} and he looked at Yeshua as he walked, and
said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!" {1:37} The two [3>]talmidim[<3] heard
him speak, and they followed Yeshua. {1:38} Yeshua turned, and saw
them following, and said to them, "What are you looking for?"
They said to him, "Rabbi" (which is to say, being interpreted,
Rabbi), "where are you staying?"
{1:39} He said to them, "Come, and see."
They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him
that day. It was about the tenth hour. {1:40} One of the two who heard
Yochanan, and followed him, was Andrew, Shim`on Kefa's brother. {1:41}
He first found his own brother, Shim`on, and said to him, "We have
found the Messiah!" (which is, being interpreted, Anointed One).
{1:42} He brought him to Yeshua. Yeshua looked at him, and said, "You
are Shim`on the son of Yonah. You shall be called [4>]Kefa[<4]" (which
is by interpretation, Rock). {1:43} On the next day, he was determined
to go out into the Galil, and he found Philip. Yeshua said to him,
"Follow me." {1:44} Now Philip was from Beit-Tzaidah, of the city of
Andrew and Kefa. {1:45} Philip found Natan'el, and said to him, "We
have found him, of whom Moshe in the Torah, and the prophets, wrote:
Yeshua of Natzeret, the son of Yosef."
{1:46} Natan'el said to him, "Can any good thing come out of
Natzeret?"
Philip said to him, "Come and see."
{1:47} Yeshua saw Natan'el coming to him, and said about him,
"Behold, an Yisra'elite indeed, in whom is no deceit!"
{1:48} Natan'el said to him, "How do you know me?"
Yeshua answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under
the fig tree, I saw you."
{1:49} Natan'el answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You
are King of Yisra'el!"
{1:50} Yeshua answered him, "Because I told you, 'I saw you
underneath the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things
than these!" {1:51} He said to him, "Most certainly, I tell you,
hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending
and descending on the Son of Man."
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Footnotes:
[1] {1:19} priests
[2] {1:35} disciples
[3] {1:37} disciples
[4] {1:42} Greek: Cephas
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