John 1:6-13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁶ There was a man sent from God whose name was John. ⁷ He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. ⁸ He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. ⁹ The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.^[a](A)

¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, yet the world did not know him.^{(B) 11} He came to what was his own,^[b] and his own people did not accept him. ¹² But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God,^{(C) 13} who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.^(D)