2. this one was in the beginning with God;
3. all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened.
4. In him was life, and the life was the light of men,
5. and the light in the darkness did shine, and the darkness did not perceive it.
6. There came a man--having been sent from God--whose name [is] John,
7. this one came for testimony, that he might testify about the Light, that all might believe through him;
8. that one was not the Light, but--that he might testify about the Light.
9. He was the true Light, which doth enlighten every man, coming to the world;
10. in the world he was, and the world through him was made, and the world did not know him:
11. to his own things he came, and his own people did not receive him;
12. but as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God--to those believing in his name,