JOHN - Chapter 1:1-18

 The Word Became Flesh

1 In the beginning was the Word,

And the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2 He was with God in the Beginning.

3 Through Him all things were made;

Without Him nothing was made that has been made.

4 In Him was Life, and that Life was the Light of men.

5 The Light shines in the darkness,

But the darkness has not understood it.

6 There came a man who was sent from God;

His name was John.

7 He came as a witness to testify concerning the Light,

So that through him all men might believe.

8 He himself was not the Light;

He came only as a witness to the Light.

9 The True Light

That gives Light to every man was coming into the World

10 He was in the World,

And though the World was made through Him,

The World did not recognize Him.

11 He came to that which was His own,

But His own did not receive Him.

12 Yet to all who received Him,

To those who believed in His Name,

He gave the Right to become the children of God--

13 Children born not of natural decent,

Nor of human decision or a husband’s will,

But Born of God.

14 The Word became flesh and lived for a while among us.

We have seen His Glory,

The Glory of the one and only Son,

Who came from the Father,

Full of Grace and Truth.

15 John testifies concerning Him.

He cries out, saying,

“This was He of whom I said,

‘He who comes after me has surpassed me

Because He was before me.’”

16 From the fullness of His Grace

We have all received one blessing after another.

For the Law was given through Moses;

Grace and Truth came through Jesus Christ.

No one has ever seen God, but God the only Son,

Who is at the Father’s side has made Him known.

(John 1:1-18, NIV)

Before any material thing existed there was the Word.

And the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He was with God in the Beginning.

Through Him, His spoken Word,

The material World came into existence. (Genesis 1)

In Him was Life, and His Life is the Light of the World.

Christ Jesus is the only Life that exists;

From His Life He gives both natural and spiritual Life.

And His Life is the only Light that exists,

All else is Darkness.

And the Darkness of this Evil World

Blinded by the “god” of this World [2 Cor. 4:4]

Has not understood the Light.

Only those Born of God understand the Light

Because they have received the Light.

The Light is available to every person,

But only those who willingly receive the Light have the Light;

Only those Born of God;

Those who respond to the wooing of God the Father

By His Holy Spirit.

The Word became flesh,

As the Word and Christ Jesus are One and the same,

And lived for a while among men.

He came revealing the Glory of God

Through the many Miracles He performed;

Miracles no one else had ever done;

And Finally through His rising from the Dead.

He came full of Grace and Truth;

Grace that gives Life and Light and Truth

To all who willingly receive them.

Christ is the only Way, the only Truth and the only Life that exists;

The only access to the Father and Heaven;

And the Father and the Son are One. (John 17:11)