³⁰ Then I was by his side, as a master workman: and I was his delight from day to day, playing before him at all times;

¹ See my servant, whom I am supporting, my loved one, in whom I take delight: I have put my spirit on him; he will give the knowledge of the true God to the nations.

¹ From the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was God.

² This Word was from the first in relation with God.

³ All things came into existence through him, and without him nothing was.

¹⁷ And a voice came out of heaven, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.

⁵ While he was still talking, a bright cloud came over them: and a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased; give ear to him.

¹⁸ No man has seen God at any time; the only Son, who is on the breast of the Father, he has made clear what God is.

²⁸ Father, give glory to your name. Then there came a voice out of heaven, saying, I have given it glory, and I will give it glory again.

²⁸ I came out from the Father and have come into the world: again, I go away from the world and go to the Father.

¹³ Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;