John 1-2 (Darby Translation)

John 1

 ¹In [the] beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

 ²*He* was in the beginning with God.

 ³All things received being through him, and without him not one [thing] received being which has received being.

 ⁴In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

 ⁵And the light appears in darkness, and the darkness apprehended it not.

 ⁶There was a man sent from God, his name John.

 ⁷He came for witness, that he might witness concerning the light, that all might believe through him.

 ⁸*He* was not the light, but that he might witness concerning the light.

 ⁹The true light was that which, coming into the world, lightens every man.

 ¹⁰He was in the world, and the world had [its] being through him, and the world knew him not.

 ¹¹He came to his own, and his own received him not;

 ¹²but as many as received him, to them gave he [the] right to be children of God, to those that believe on his name;

 ¹³who have been born, not of blood, nor of flesh's will, nor of man's will, but of God.

 ¹⁴And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we have contemplated his glory, a glory as of an only-begotten with a father), full of grace and truth;

 ¹⁵(John bears witness of him, and he has cried, saying, This was he of whom I said, He that comes after me is preferred before me, for he was before me;)

 ¹⁶for of his fulness we all have received, and grace upon grace.

 ¹⁷For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth subsists through Jesus Christ.

 ¹⁸No one has seen God at any time; the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, *he* hath declared [him].

 ¹⁹And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites that they might ask him, Thou, who art thou?

 ²⁰And he acknowledged and denied not, and acknowledged, I am not the Christ.

 ²¹And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he says, I am not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered, No.

 ²²They said therefore to him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?

 ²³He said, I [am] [the] voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the path of [the] Lord, as said Esaias the prophet.

 ²⁴And they were sent from among the Pharisees.

 ²⁵And they asked him and said to him, Why baptisest thou then, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?

 ²⁶John answered them saying, I baptise with water. In the midst of you stands, whom ye do not know,

 ²⁷he who comes after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to unloose.

 ²⁸These things took place in Bethany, across the Jordan, where John was baptising.

 ²⁹On the morrow he sees Jesus coming to him, and says, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

 ³⁰He it is of whom I said, A man comes after me who takes a place before me, because he *was* before me;

 ³¹and I knew him not; but that he might be manifested to Israel, therefore have I come baptising with water.

 ³²And John bore witness, saying, I beheld the Spirit descending as a dove from heaven, and it abode upon him.

 ³³And I knew him not; but he who sent me to baptise with water, *he* said to me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and abiding on him, he it is who baptises with [the] Holy Spirit.

 ³⁴And I have seen and borne witness that this is the Son of God.

 ³⁵Again, on the morrow, there stood John and two of his disciples.

 ³⁶And, looking at Jesus as he walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God.

 ³⁷And the two disciples heard him speaking, and followed Jesus.

 ³⁸But Jesus having turned, and seeing them following, says to them, What seek ye? And *they* said to him, Rabbi (which, being interpreted, signifies Teacher), where abidest thou?

 ³⁹He says to them, Come and see. They went therefore, and saw where he abode; and they abode with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.

 ⁴⁰Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard [this] from John and followed him.

 ⁴¹He first finds his own brother Simon, and says to him, We have found the Messias (which being interpreted is Christ).

 ⁴²And he led him to Jesus. Jesus looking at him said, Thou art Simon, the son of Jonas; thou shalt be called Cephas (which interpreted is stone).

 ⁴³On the morrow he would go forth into Galilee, and Jesus finds Philip, and says to him, Follow me.

 ⁴⁴And Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.

 ⁴⁵Philip finds Nathanael, and says to him, We have found him of whom Moses wrote in the law, and the prophets, Jesus, the son of Joseph, who is from Nazareth.

 ⁴⁶And Nathanael said to him, Can anything good come out of Nazareth? Philip says to him, Come and see.

 ⁴⁷Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says of him, Behold [one] truly an Israelite, in whom there is no guile.

 ⁴⁸Nathanael says to him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said to him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig-tree, I saw thee.

 ⁴⁹Nathanael answered and said to him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art the King of Israel.

 ⁵⁰Jesus 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.

 ⁵¹And he says to him, Verily, verily, I say to you, Henceforth ye shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of man.

John 2

 ¹And on the third day a marriage took place in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.

 ²And Jesus also, and his disciples, were invited to the marriage.

 ³And wine being deficient, the mother of Jesus says to him, They have no wine.

 ⁴Jesus says to her, What have I to do with thee, woman? mine hour has not yet come.

 ⁵His mother says to the servants, Whatever he may say to you, do.

 ⁶Now there were standing there six stone water-vessels, according to the purification of the Jews, holding two or three measures each.

 ⁷Jesus says to them, Fill the water-vessels with water. And they filled them up to the brim.

 ⁸And he says to them, Draw out now, and carry [it] to the feast-master. And they carried [it].

 ⁹But when the feast-master had tasted the water which had been made wine (and knew not whence it was, but the servants knew who drew the water), the feast-master calls the bridegroom,

 ¹⁰and says to him, Every man sets on first the good wine, and when [men] have well drunk, then the inferior; thou hast kept the good wine till now.

 ¹¹This beginning of signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed on him.

 ¹²After this he descended to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brethren and his disciples; and there they abode not many days.

 ¹³And the passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

 ¹⁴And he found in the temple the sellers of oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting;

 ¹⁵and, having made a scourge of cords, he cast [them] all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the change of the money-changers, and overturned the tables,

 ¹⁶and said to the sellers of doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.

 ¹⁷[And] his disciples remembered that it is written, The zeal of thy house devours me.

 ¹⁸The Jews therefore answered and said to him, What sign shewest thou to us, that thou doest these things?

 ¹⁹Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

 ²⁰The Jews therefore said, Forty and six years was this temple building, and thou wilt raise it up in three days?

 ²¹But *he* spoke of the temple of his body.

 ²²When therefore he was raised from among [the] dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and believed the scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.

 ²³And when he was in Jerusalem, at the passover, at the feast, many believed on his name, beholding his signs which he wrought.

 ²⁴But Jesus himself did not trust himself to them, because he knew all [men],

 ²⁵and that he had not need that any should testify of man, for himself knew what was in man.