The New Testament
of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
1865 by American Bible Union

John Chapter 1

Joh 1:1 IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
Joh 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was nothing made that has been made.
Joh 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
Joh 1:5 And the light shines in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
Joh 1:6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
Joh 1:7 The same came for witness, to bear witness of the light, that through him all might believe.
Joh 1:8 He was not the light; but [came] to bear witness of the light.
Joh 1:9 There was the true light, which lights every man that comes into the world.
Joh 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
Joh 1:11 He came to his own, and his own received him not.
Joh 1:12 But as many as received him, to them he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe on his name;
Joh 1:13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Joh 1:14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us; and we beheld his glory, a glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Joh 1:15 John bore witness of him; and cried, saying: This was he of whom I said, He that comes after me is preferred before me, because he was before me.
Joh 1:16 Because out of his fullness we all received, and grace for grace.
Joh 1:17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Joh 1:18 No one has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he declared him.
Joh 1:19 And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him: Who art thou?
Joh 1:20 And he confessed, and denied not; and he confessed: I am not the Christ.
Joh 1:21 And they asked him: What then? Art thou Elijah? And he says: I am not. Art thou the Prophet? And he answered: No.
Joh 1:22 They said therefore to him: Who art thou? that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
Joh 1:23 He said: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.
Joh 1:24 And they who were sent were of the Pharisees.
Joh 1:25 And they asked him, and said to him: Why then dost thou immerse, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?
Joh 1:26 John answered them, saying: I immerse in water. There stands one in the midst of you, whom ye know not;
Joh 1:27 he who comes after me, the latchet of whose sandal I am not worthy to loose.
Joh 1:28 These things took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was immersing.
Joh 1:29 On the morrow, he sees Jesus coming to him, and says: Behold the Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world!
Joh 1:30 This is he of whom I said: After me comes a man who is preferred before me; because he was before me.
Joh 1:31 And I knew him not; but that he might be made manifest to Israel, for this I came immersing in water.
Joh 1:32 And John bore witness, saying: I have seen the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven, and it abode upon him.
Joh 1:33 And I knew him not; but he who sent me to immerse in water, the same said to me: Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and abiding on him, the same is he who immerses in the Holy Spirit.
Joh 1:34 And I have seen, and have borne witness, that this is the Son of God.
Joh 1:35 Again, on the morrow, John was standing, and two of his disciples;
Joh 1:36 and looking upon Jesus as he walked, he says: Behold the Lamb of God!
Joh 1:37 And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
Joh 1:38 And Jesus turning, and beholding them following, says to them: What seek ye? They said to him: Rabbi (which interpreted means, Teacher), where dost thou abide?
Joh 1:39 He says to them: Come, and ye shall see. They came and saw where he abode; and they abode with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.
Joh 1:40 Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard it from John, and followed him.
Joh 1:41 He first finds his brother Simon, and says to him: We have found the Messiah, which is interpreted, Christ.
Joh 1:42 And he brought him to Jesus. Jesus, beholding him, said: Thou art Simon the son of Jonah; thou shalt be called Cephas, which is interpreted, Peter.
Joh 1:43 On the morrow he would go forth into Galilee. And he finds Philip; and Jesus says to him: Follow me.
Joh 1:44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.
Joh 1:45 Philip finds Nathanael, and says to him: We have found him of whom Moses, in the law, and the prophets wrote, Jesus the son of Joseph, who is from Nazareth.
Joh 1:46 And Nathanael said to him: Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip says to him: Come and see.
Joh 1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says of him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
Joh 1:48 Nathanael says to him: Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said to him: Before Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig-tree, I saw thee.
Joh 1:49 Nathanael answered: Rabbi; thou art the Son of God, thou art the King of Israel.
Joh 1:50 Jesus answered and said to him: Because I said to thee, I saw thee under the fig-tree, believest thou? Thou shalt see greater things than these.
Joh 1:51 And he says to him: Verily, verily, I say to you, henceforth ye shall see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.