⁵⁸ Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, before Abraham was, I am.”^(A)

¹⁴ God said to Moses, “I am who I am.”^[a] He said further, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘I am has sent me to you.’ ”^(A)

¹⁷ He himself is before all things, and in^[a] him all things hold together.

⁵ So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.^(A)

The Word Became Flesh

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.^{(A) 2} He was in the beginning with God.

⁸ “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.^(A)

⁸ Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

²⁴ Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.^(A)