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The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ,

According to St. John

Chapter 1 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt
among us, (and we saw his glory, the glory as it
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word were of the only begotten of the Father,) full of
was with God, and the Word was God. grace and truth.
2 The same was in the beginning with God. 15 John beareth witness of him, and crieth
3 All things were made by him: and without out, saying: This was he of whom I spoke: He
him was made nothing that was made. that shall come after me, is preferred before me:
4 In him was life, and the life was the light of because he was before me.
men. 16 And of his fulness we all have received, and
5 And the light shineth in darkness, and the grace for grace.
darkness did not comprehend it. 17 For the law was given by Moses; grace and
6 There was a man sent from God, whose truth came by Jesus Christ.
name was John. 18 No man hath seen God at any time: the
7 This man came for a witness, to give tes- only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the
timony of the light, that all men might believe Father, he hath declared him.
through him. 19 And this is the testimony of John, when the
8 He was not the light, but was to give testi- Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites to
mony of the light. him, to ask him: Who art thou?
9 That was the true light, which enlighteneth 20 And he confessed, and did not deny: and
every man that cometh into this world. he confessed: I am not the Christ.
10 He was in the world, and the world was 21 And they asked him: What then? Art thou
made by him, and the world knew him not. Elias? And he said: I am not. Art thou the
11 He came unto his own, and his own received prophet? And he answered: No.
him not. 22 They said therefore unto him: Who art
12 But as many as received him, he gave them thou, that we may give an answer to them that
power to be made the sons of God, to them that sent us? What sayest thou of thyself?
believe in his name. 23 He said: I am the voice of one crying out
13 Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will in the wilderness, make straight the way of the
of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. Lord, as said the prophet Isaias.