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

So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus replied, “What I have told you from the beginning.

He saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down to earth by its four corners.

Then as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he did on us at the beginning.

Now all the Jews know the way I lived from my youth, spending my life from the beginning among my own people and in Jerusalem.

Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when he has brought to an end all rule and all authority and power.

far above every rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.

The purpose of this enlightenment is that through the church the multifaceted wisdom of God should now be disclosed to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms.

how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,

Without father, without mother, without genealogy, he has neither beginning of days nor end of life but is like the son of God, and he remains a priest for all time.

and saying, “Where is his promised return? For ever since our ancestors died, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation.”

But now I ask you, lady (not as if I were writing a new commandment to you, but the one we have had from the beginning), that we love one another.

You also know that the angels who did not keep within their proper domain but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness, locked up for the judgment of the great Day.

For in those days there will be suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, or ever will happen.

Then they watched him carefully and sent spies who pretended to be sincere. They wanted to take advantage of what he might say so that they could deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs, in Cana of Galilee. In this way he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus had already known from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)

But I have told you these things so that when their time comes, you will remember that I told you about them. “I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.

“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came to me.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.