1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Yahweh, and the Word was Yahweh.2 He was in the beginning with Yahweh.3 All things were through Him, and without Him was not even one thing. That which was done4 in Him was life, and the life was the light of men.5 And the light shines in the darkness; yet the darkness comprehends it not.6 There was a man, having been sent by Yahweh, whose name was Iohannes.7 He came for a witness, in order that he would testify concerning the light, that they all would believe through him.8 Not that he was the light, but that he would testify concerning the light.9 The light was the truth, which coming into the Society enlightens every man.10 He was in the Society, and the Society came to be through Him, yet the Society knew Him not.11 He came into His own land, and the men of the country received Him not.12 But as many who received Him, He gave to them the authority which the children of Yahweh are to attain, to those believing in His Name:13 not those from of mixed origin nor from of desire of the flesh nor from of the will of man, but they who have been born from Yahweh.14 And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us, and we beheld His splendor, splendor as the most-beloved by the Father, full of favor and truth.15 Iohannes testifies concerning Him, and cried out, saying "This was He whom I said: 'He coming after me, He is preferred over me, because He was before me'."16 Because we have all received from of His fullness, and favor for the sake of favor.17 For the law had been given through Moses; the favor and the truth have come through Yahshua Christ.18 No one ever yet having seen Yahweh, the only-born God, He being in the bosom of the Father, He has explained.19 And this is the testimony of Iohannes, when the Judaeans from Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to him, that they could ask him "What are you?"20 And he admitted, and denied not, and he admitted that "I am not the Christ."21 And they asked him "Then what? Are you Elijah?" And he said "I am not." "Are you a prophet?" and he answered "No."22 Then they said to him "Who are you, that we could give an answer to those who sent us, what do you say concerning yourself?"23 He said: "I am a voice crying in the wilderness. Make straight the way of the Prince!" Just as Isaiah the prophet had spoken.24 And those who were sent were from of the Pharisees,25 and they asked him, and said to him "Then why do you immerse if you are not the Christ nor Elijah nor a prophet?"26 Iohannes replied to them saying "I immerse in water. In your midst stands He whom you do not know,27 He coming after me, of whom I am not worthy that I loosen the strap of His sandal!"28 These things happened in Bethania, across the Jordan, where Iohannes was immersing.29 The next day he sees Yahshua coming to him and he says: "Look! The Lamb of Yahweh, He removing the error of Society.30 This is He concerning whom I said: 'A man comes after me who is preferred over me, because He was before me.'31 And I did not know Him, but in order that He would be made manifest to Israel, for this reason I came immersing in water."32 And Iohannes testified, saying that: "I observed the Spirit descending as a dove from heaven and it abode upon Him.33 And I did not know Him, but He who has sent me to immerse in water, He said to me: 'Upon whom you should see the Spirit descending and abiding upon Him, it is He who immerses in the Holy Spirit.'34 And I have seen and have testified that He is the Son of Yahweh!"35 The next day Iohannes again stood, and two from among the students,36 and looking at Yahshua walking about he says: "Look, the Lamb of Yahweh!"37 And his two students heard the saying and followed Yahshua.38 Then Yahshua turning and looking at them following says to them "What do you seek?" And they said to Him "Rabbi," (which is spoken, being translated, "Teacher"), "where do You abide?"39 He says to them "you come and see." Therefore they came and saw where He stays and they remained with Him that day. It was about the tenth hour.40 Andreas the brother of Simon Petros was one of the two of those hearing Iohannes and following Him.41 He finds his own older brother Simon and says to him "We have found the Messiah!" (which is translated "Christ".)42 He led him to Yahshua. Looking at him Yahshua said: "You are Simon the son of Iohannes. You shall be called Kephas" (which is interpreted "a stone").43 The next day He desired to depart for Galilaia and He finds Philippos. And Yahshua says to him "Follow Me."44 And Philippos was from Bethsaida, from the city of Andreas and Petros.45 Philippos finds Nathanael and says to him: "He whom Moses and the prophets had written about in the law we have found: Yahshua the son of Ioseph from Nazaret."46 And Nathanael said to him: "Can anything good be from Nazaret?" Philippos says to him: "Come and see!"47 Yahshua saw Nathanael coming towards Him and He says about him: "Look! An Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile!"48 Nathanael says to Him: "From where do You know me?" Yahshua replied and said to him: "Before Philippos called you, being under the fig tree I saw you."49 Nathanael replied to Him: "Rabbi! You are the Son of Yahweh! You are King of Israel!"50 Yahshua replied and said to him: "Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, you believe? Greater than these things you shall see."51 And He says to him: "Truly, truly I say to you: You shall see the heaven having been opened and the messengers of Yahweh ascending and descending before the Son of Man."