John 1:6-13
1:6 A man came, sent from God, whose name was John.
1:7 He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that everyone might believe through him.
1:8 He himself was not the light, but he came to testify about the light.
1:9 The true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.
1:10 He was in the world, and the world was created by him, but the world did not recognize him.
1:11 He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.
1:12 But to all who have received him – those who believe in his name – he has given the right to become God’s children
1:13 – children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband’s decision, but by God.