[ her own sentence divisions / modern
language - usage choices ]
First was the Living Idea,
and the Idea was with God,
and the Idea was God.
He was first with God.
Everything came into being
through him, and apart from
him not even a single thing arose.
What has been born in him
was life, and the life was the
light of humankind.
And the light still appears
radiant in the darkness,
which did not take hold of it.
There was a person, sent with
a purpose by God, and his
name was John.
He came to give testimony, to
attest to the light, so that
everyone could believe through
him
But this person was not the light;
instead he came to testify about
the light.
The light was the true light,
which give light to every human
being coming into the world.
The light was in the world,
and the world was born through
him,
but the world did not recognize him.
He came into what belonged to him,
but the people who belonged to him
did not take him for themselves.
But to all those who accepted him,
he gave the right to be born
children of God, if they trusted in
his name.
These are the people who have
been engendered not in blood
relationships, and not from what
the body wants, and not from what
a husband wants, but from God!
v.14
And the Idea became a body,
flesh and blood, and pitched a tend
and sojourned among us,
and we gazed on his splendor, the
splendor that a father's only son
has, full of benevolence and truth!
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