Gospel, John 1:1-18

In the beginning was the Word: the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was
with God in the beginning. Through him all things came into being, not one thing came
into being except through him. What has come into being in him was life, life that was
the light of men; and light shines in darkness, and darkness could not overpower it. A
man came, sent by God. His name was John. He came as a witness, to bear witness to the
light, so that everyone might believe through him. He was not the light, he was to bear
witness to the light. The Word was the real light that gives light to everyone; he was
coming into the world. He was in the world that had come into being through him, and
the world did not recognise him.
He came to his own and his own people did not accept him. But to those who did accept
him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believed in his name who
were born not from human stock or human desire or human will but from God himself.
The Word became flesh, he lived among us, and we saw his glory, the glory that he has
from the Father as only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. John witnesses to him.
He proclaims: 'This is the one of whom I said: He who comes after me has passed ahead
of me because he existed before me.' Indeed, from his fullness we have, all of us,

Gospel, John 1:1-18

In the beginning was the Word: the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was
with God in the beginning. Through him all things came into being, not one thing came
into being except through him. What has come into being in him was life, life that was
the light of men; and light shines in darkness, and darkness could not overpower it. A
man came, sent by God. His name was John. He came as a witness, to bear witness to the
light, so that everyone might believe through him. He was not the light, he was to bear
witness to the light. The Word was the real light that gives light to everyone; he was
coming into the world. He was in the world that had come into being through him, and
the world did not recognise him.
He came to his own and his own people did not accept him. But to those who did accept
him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believed in his name who
were born not from human stock or human desire or human will but from God himself.
The Word became flesh, he lived among us, and we saw his glory, the glory that he has
from the Father as only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. John witnesses to him.
He proclaims: 'This is the one of whom I said: He who comes after me has passed ahead
of me because he existed before me.' Indeed, from his fullness we have, all of us,

Gospel, John 1:1-18

In the beginning was the Word: the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was
with God in the beginning. Through him all things came into being, not one thing came
into being except through him. What has come into being in him was life, life that was
the light of men; and light shines in darkness, and darkness could not overpower it. A
man came, sent by God. His name was John. He came as a witness, to bear witness to the
light, so that everyone might believe through him. He was not the light, he was to bear
witness to the light. The Word was the real light that gives light to everyone; he was
coming into the world. He was in the world that had come into being through him, and
the world did not recognise him.
He came to his own and his own people did not accept him. But to those who did accept
him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believed in his name who
were born not from human stock or human desire or human will but from God himself.
The Word became flesh, he lived among us, and we saw his glory, the glory that he has
from the Father as only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. John witnesses to him.
He proclaims: 'This is the one of whom I said: He who comes after me has passed ahead
of me because he existed before me.' Indeed, from his fullness we have, all of us,