Produced by Martin Ward Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, John Third Edition 1913 R. F. Weymouth Book 43 John 001:001 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 001:002 He was in the beginning with God. 001:003 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing that exists came into being. 001:004 In Him was Life, and that Life was the Light of men. 001:005 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overpowered it. 001:006 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 001:007 He came as a witness, in order that he might give testimony concerning the Light--so that all might believe through him. 001:008 He was not the Light, but he existed that he might give testimony concerning the Light. 001:009 The true Light was that which illumines every man by its coming into the world. 001:010 He was in the world, and the world came into existence through Him, and the world did not recognize Him. 001:011 He came to the things that were His own, and His own people gave Him no welcome. 001:012 But all who have received Him, to them--that is, to those who trust in His name--He has given the privilege of becoming children of God; 001:013 who were begotten as such not by human descent, nor through an impulse of their own nature, nor through the will of a human father, but from God. 001:014 And the Word came in the flesh, and lived for a time in our midst, so that we saw His glory--the glory as of the Father's only Son, sent from His presence. He was full of grace and truth. 001:015 John gave testimony concerning Him and cried aloud, saying, "This is He of whom I said, `He who is coming after me has been put before me,' for He was before me." 001:016 For He it is from whose fulness we have all received, and grace upon grace. 001:017 For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 001:018 No human eye has ever seen God: the only Son, who is in the Father's bosom--He has made Him known. 001:019 This also is John's testimony, when the Jews sent to him a deputation of Priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him who he was. 001:020 He avowed--he did not conceal the truth, but avowed, "I am not the Christ." 001:021 "What then?" they inquired; "are you Elijah?" "I am not," he said. "Are you the Prophet?" "No," he answered. 001:022 So they pressed the question. "Who are you?" they said--"that we may take an answer to those who sent us. What account do you give of yourself?" 001:023 "I am the voice," he replied, "of one crying aloud, `Make straight the Lord's way in the Desert,' fulfilling the words of the Prophet Isaiah." 001:024 They were Pharisees who had been sent.