In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He was in the beginning with God.

All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being.

He came as a witness, to testify about the Light, so that all might believe through him.

For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace.

Then they said to him, “Who are you? Tell us, so that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

He said, “I am the voice of one calling out in the wilderness, ‘Make the way of the Lord straight,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”

Jesus’ Public Ministry; First Converts

Again the next day John was standing with two of his disciples,

He *said to them, “Come, and you will see.” So they came and saw where He was staying, and they stayed with Him that day; it was about the tenth hour.

And Jesus *said to her, “What business do you have with Me, woman? My hour has not yet come.”

Jesus *said to them, “Fill the waterpots with water.” So they filled them up to the brim.

And within the temple grounds He found those who were selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables.

And He made a whip of cords, and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables;

His disciples remembered that it was written: “Zeal for Your house will consume me.”

The Jews then said to Him, “What sign do You show us as Your authority for doing these things?”

But Jesus, on His part, was not entrusting Himself to them, because He knew all people,

this man came to Jesus at night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.

And this is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the Light; for their deeds were evil.

John the Baptist’s Last Testimony

After these things Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea; and there He was spending time with them and baptizing.

Then a matter of dispute developed on the part of John’s disciples with a Jew about purification.

And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified—behold, He is baptizing and all the people are coming to Him.”

You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent ahead of Him.’

“He who comes from above is above all; the one who is only from the earth is of the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

The Father loves the Son and has entrusted all things to His hand.