⁵ The light keeps shining in the dark, and darkness has never put it out.   God sent a man named John, who came to tell about the light and to lead all people to have faith. ⁸ John wasn’t that light.  He came only to tell about the light.  ⁹ The true light that shines on everyone was coming into the world.  ¹⁰ The Word was in the world, but no one knew him, though God had made the world with his Word.

¹¹ He came into his own world, but his own nation did not welcome him.  ¹² Yet some people accepted him and put their faith in him. So he gave them the right to be the children of God.  ¹³ They were not God’s children by nature or because of any human desires.  God himself was the one who made them his children.

¹⁴ The Word became a human being and lived here with us.  We saw his true glory, the glory of the only Son of the Father.  From him all the kindness and all the truth of God have come down to us.