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They asked him, “Why then are you baptizing if you are neither the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?” John answered them, “I baptize with water. Now they had been sent from the Pharisees. What do you say about yourself?” He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’” as the prophet Isaiah said. This is the testimony given by John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” He confessed and did not deny it, but confessed, “I am not the Messiah.” And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” He answered, “No.” Then they said to him, “Who are you? Let us have an answer for those who sent us. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father’s heart, who has made him known. The law indeed was given through Moses grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. (John testified to him and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was before me.’”) From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.

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And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.

But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God. He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. He was in the world, and the world came into being through him yet the world did not know him. The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people.

All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being.

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