John 1
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1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2The same was in the beginning with God. 3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
6There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. 8He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. 9That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. 10He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. 11He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 12But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 13which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John the Baptist's Testimony
15John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. 16And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. 17For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. 18No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
19And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? 20And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. 21And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No. 22Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? 23He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
24And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. 25And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? 26John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not; 27he it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose. 28These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
Behold the Lamb of God
29The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. 30This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me. 31And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water. 32And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. 33And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. 34And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
His First Disciples
35Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples; 36and looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God! 37And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. 38Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou? 39He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour. 40One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. 41He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. 42And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.
43The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me. 44Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
45Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. 46And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see. 47Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile! 48Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee. 49Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.
50Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than these. 51And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.
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1Bereshis (in the Beginning) was the Dvar Hashem,#1:1 Isa 55:11; Gn 1:3 and the Dvar Hashem was agav (along with, etzel)#1:1 Prov 8:30; 30:4 Hashem, and the Dvar Hashem was nothing less, by nature, than Elohim!#1:1 Ps 56:10 [11]; Jn 17:5; Rv 19:13 i.e., the Ma'amar Memra
2Bereshis (in the Beginning) this Dvar Hashem was with Hashem.#1:2 Prov 8:30
3All things through him came to be, and without him came to be not one thing which came into being.#1:3 Ps 33:6,9; Prov 30:4
4In him was Chayyim (Life) and the Chayyim (Life) was the Ohr (Light) of Bnei Adam.#1:4 Ps 36:9 [10]
5And the Ohr shines in the choshech,#1:5 Ps 18:28 and the choshech did not grasp it.#1:5 Isa 9:1
6There came an ish haElohim (a man of G-d), having been sent from Hashem. His name was Yochanan.
7This Yochanan came for an eidus (witness), that he might give solemn edut (testimony) about the Ohr, that kol Bnei Adam might have emunah through him.
8This ish haElohim was not the Ohr, but he came that he might give solemn edut (testimony) about the Ohr.
9The Ohr, the Ohr HaAmitti (the True Light), which gives rational haskalah (enlightenment) to kol Bnei Adam (all mankind), was coming into the Olam Hazeh.
10He was in the Olam Hazeh, the Olam (world) came to be through him;#1:10 Ps 33:6,9 yet the Olam Hazeh did not recognize him.
11He came to his own, and his own were not mekabel (accepting) the Kabbalus HaMalchus of him.#1:11 Isa 53:3
12But as many as him lekabel pnei Moshiach (receive him as Moshiach), to them he gave the tokef (authority) to become in fact yeladim haElohim.#1:12 Dt 14:1
13He gave this tokef to the ones whose being born was not by the agency of natural descent, nor by the ratzon (will) of basar (fallen human nature), nor by the ratzon of a gever (male) — rather, to the ones born of G-d.#1:13 Jn 3:3,7
14And the Dvar Hashem did mitgashem (become bodily) and made his Sukkah, his Mishkan (Tabernacle) among us,#1:14 Isa 7:14 and we#1:14 Shlichim, 1Y 1:1-2 gazed upon his Shekhinah,#1:14 Ex 33:18; 40:34; Isa 60:1-2 the Shechinah of the Ben Yachid from Elohim HaAv, full of Hashemʼs Chesed v'Emes.
15And Yochanan gives solemn edut (testimony) about him and has cried out, This was he about whom I said, Hu HaBah (He who comes)#1:15 Gn 49:10; Ezek 21:27 after me is really before me in priority, because, before I came to be, he was.#1:15 Jn 8:58
16For from the kol melo (all the plentitude) of him we all received Chesed upon Chesed.
17Because the matan Torah (giving of the Torah) was graciously bestowed through Moshe,#1:17 Rabbeinu; Dt 32:46; Ex 31:18; 34:28 but Chesed and Emes of Hashem came through [Rebbe], Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua.#1:17 Ex 34:6; Ps 25:10; 40:11; 85:11; Jn 1:49
18No one has ever seen Hashem.#1:18 Ex 33:20 It is Elohim the Ben Yachid,#1:18 who shares the nature of Hashem, the Chochmah Ben Elohim at his side, see very importantly Prov 8:30; 30:4 it is he, the one being in the kheyk (bosom) of HaAv, this one is Hashemʼs definitive midrash (exegesis).
19And this is the solemn edut (testimony) of Yochanan, when those of Yehudah sent kohanim and L'viim from Yerushalayim to him that they might ask him, Mi atah? (Who are you?).
20Yochanan made hoda'a (confession, admission) — he did not fail to make hoda'a — and said clearly, I am not the#1:20 Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
21And they asked Yochanan, What, then? Are you Eliyahu HaNavi? And Yochanan says, I am not. Are you the Navi?#1:21 Dt 18:15,18 And he answered, Lo (No).
22They said then to him, Mi atah? That we may give a teshuvah (answer) to the ones who sent us. What do you say about yourself?
23Yochanan said, I am a KOL KOREY BAMIDBAR, make straight the DERECH HASHEM!#1:23 Isa 40:3, TARGUM HASHIVIM as Yeshayah HaNavi said.
24And the ones that had been sent were of the Perushim.
25And the Perushim asked Yochanan, If you are not the [Rebbe], Melech HaMoshiach nor Eliyahu nor the Navi, then why do you administer the mikveh mayimʼs tevilah?
26Yochanan answered the Perushim, I give a tevilah in a mikveh mayim; among you is standing one of whom you do not have da'as.
27Hu HaBah (he who comes),#1:27 i.e., the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach who is coming into the Olam Hazeh that is, He who comes after me, is one that I am not worthy even to untie the thong of his sandal.
28These events took place in Beit-Anyah (Bethany), beyond the Yarden River, which Yochanan was using as a mikveh mayim in which to administer the tevilah.
29On the next day, Yochanan sees Yehoshua coming to him, and Yochanan says, Hinei! The Seh HaElohim,#1:29 Gn 22:8; Ex 12:5-13; Isa 53:7 the one carrying away the avonot HaOlam Hazeh (sins of this world).#1:29 i.e., as the sa'ir l'Azazel kapporah; Isa 53:6,7,12; Lv 16:22
30This is he about whom I said, After me comes an ISH#1:30 Zech 6:12 who is really before me in priority, because, before I came to be, he was.#1:30 Jn 8:58
31And I did not recognize him, but that he might be manifested to Klal Yisroel, I came, therefore, administering the mikveh mayimʼs tevilah.
32And Yochanan gave solemn edut, I have seen the Ruach Hakodesh descending like a yonah out of Shomayim and remaining upon him.#1:32 Isa 11:2
33And I did not recognize him, but the One who sent me to give the mikveh mayimʼs tevilah said to me, Upon whomever you see the Ruach Hakodesh descending and remaining, this is the One giving the tevilah in the Ruach Hakodesh.#1:33 Yoel 2:28 [3:1]
34And I have seen and I have given solemn edut (testimony) that this One is the Ben HaElohim.#1:34 2Sm 7:14; Ps 2:7; 1Chr 17:10-14; Prov 8:30; 30:4
35On the next day, Yochanan was standing with two of his talmidim.
36And as Yochanan watched Yehoshua walking by, Yochanan says, Hinei the Seh HaElohim!#1:36 Gn 22:8; Ex 12:5-13; Isa 53:7
37And the two talmidim heard Yochanan speaking, and they followed after him.
38When he turned and saw them following, he says to them, Mah tevakkeshun (What do you seek)? And they said to him, Rebbe (which means, being translated, my Master Moreh [teacher]), where is your mekom megurim (dwelling place)?
39And he says to them, Bo'u u're'u! (Come and see!) They went, therefore, and saw his mekom megurim, and remained with him that day. The hour was about the tenth (four o'clock in the afternoon).
40One of the two was the achi Shim'on Kefa. His name was Andrew. He was one of the two who heard Yochanan and followed him.
41Andrew first finds his own achi Shim'on Kefa and says to him, We have found the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach! — the word, being translated, means “Messiah”.#1:41 Dan 9:25; Ps 2:2; 1Sm 2:10
42Andrew led Shim'on to Yehoshua. When Yehoshua gazed at Shim'on, he said, You are Shim'on Bar-Yonah. You will be called Kefa, which is translated Petros.#1:42 Rock; Gn 17:5,15; 32:28; 35:10
43On the next day he wanted to go out into the Galil, and he finds Philippos, and says to Philippos, Follow me.#1:43 as my talmid; 1Kgs 19:19
44Now Philippos was from Beit-Tzaidah, the shtetl of Andrew and Kefa.
45Philippos finds Natan'el and says to him, He whom Moshe#1:45 Rabbeinu wrote of in the Sefer Torah, he whom the Nevi'im also wrote of — Yehoshua ben Yosef [ben Dovid], from Natzeret we have found!#1:45 Dt 18:18; Isa 7:14; 9:6[5]; Ezek 34:23
46And Natan'el said to Philippos, Can anything good come out of Natzeret?#1:46 7:41; Isa 11:1; Zech 6:11-12 Philippos says to Natan'el, Bo'u u're'u! (Come and see!)#1:46 2Kgs 6:13
47Yehoshua saw Natan'el coming to him, and he says, Hinei a genuine Ben Yisroel, in whom is no MIRMAH (deceit).#1:47 Ps 32:2; Zeph 3:13; Isa 53:9
48Natan'el says to him, How do you have da'as of me? In reply, Yehoshua said to him, Before you received your kri'ah (call) from Philippos, while you were beneath the etz hate'enah#1:48 Mic 4:4; Zech 3:10 (fig tree), I watched you.
49In reply, Natan'el said to him, Rebbe, you are the Ben HaElohim,#1:49 2Sm 7:14; Ps 2:7; 89:26-27 the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach of Yisroel.
50In reply, Yehoshua said to Natan'el, Because I told you that I watched you beneath the etz hate'enah, do you have emunah (faith)? Greater than these things you will see.
51And he says to Natan'el, Omein, omein, I say to you, you will see Shomayim having been opened and malachim (angels) of Hashem ascending and descending on the Bar Enosh.#1:51 i.e, Moshiach Dan 7:13-14; Zeph 3:15; Gn 28:12
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