^{1 Ref} In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;

² this one was in the beginning with God;

^{3 Ref} all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened.

^{4 Ref} In him was life, and the life was the light of men,

^{5 Ref} and the light in the darkness did shine, and the darkness did not perceive it.

^{6 Ref} There came a man -- having been sent from God -- whose name `is' John,

^{7 Ref} this one came for testimony, that he might testify about the Light, that all might believe through him;

^{8 Ref} that one was not the Light, but -- that he might testify about the Light.

^{9 Ref} He was the true Light, which doth enlighten every man, coming to the world;

^{10 Ref} in the world he was, and the world through him was made, and the world did not know him:

^{11 Ref} to his own things he came, and his own people did not receive him;

^{12 Ref} but as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God -- to those believing in his name,

^{13 Ref} who -- not of blood nor of a will of flesh, nor of a will of man but -- of God were begotten.

^{14 Ref} And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.