1) In the beginning was the Word,
     and the Word was with God
     and the Wordwas God.
  2) He was with God in the beginning.

  3) Through Him all things were made;
     without Him nothing was

      made that has been made.
  4) In Him was life, and that life was the

      Light of men.
  5) The Light shines in the darkness,
      but the darkness has not understood it.

  6) There came a man who was sent from God;
      his name was John.
  7) He (John) came as a witness to testify

      concerning that Light, so that through

      Him all men might believe.
  8) He himself was not the Light;
      he came only as a witness to the Light.
  9) The true Light that gives Light to every man
      was coming into the world.
10) He was in the world, and though the world
      was made through Him, the world

      did not recognize Him.
11) He came to that which was his own,
      but His own did not receive Him.
12) Yet to all who received Him,

       to those who believed in His Name,

      He gave the right to become children of God—
13)  children born not of natural descent,
      nor of human decision or a husband's will,
       but born of God.

        His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory,

       the glory of the One and Only,who came from the