In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was fully God.

The Word was with God in the beginning.

The true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

He was in the world, and the world was created by him, but the world did not recognize him.

Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory – the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.

who is coming after me. I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandal!”

On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly.

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”

Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.

But a time is coming – and now is here – when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.

God is spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.

I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”

and because of his word many more believed.

They said to the woman, “No longer do we believe because of your words, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this one really is the Savior of the world.”