A Translation of the New Testament from the original Greek / Humbly Attempted with a View to Assist the Unlearned with Clearer and More Explicit Views of the Mind of the Spirit in the Scriptures of Truth

by Thomas Haweis

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[THE GOSPEL]

ACCORDING TO

JOHN.

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CHAP. I.

IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ²He was in the beginning with God. ³All things were made by him; and without him was not one thing made that was made. ⁴In him was life; and the life was the light of men. ⁵And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness did not comprehend it.

⁶A man was sent from God, whose name was John. ⁷He came for a witness, that he might bear testimony concerning the Light, that all men through him might believe. ⁸He was not the Light, but sent that he should bear testimony concerning the Light. ⁹He was that true Light, which illumines every man by his coming into the world. ¹⁰He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. ¹¹He came unto his peculiar people, and his peculiar people did not receive him. ¹²But as many as did receive him, on them he bestowed authority to become children of God, even on those who believe on his name: ¹³who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. ¹⁴And the Word became incarnate, and tabernacled with us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

¹⁵John bore witness concerning him, and cried, saying, This is he of whom I said, He that is coming after me, is before me: because before me he was. ¹⁶And from his plenitude we all have received, even grace corresponding with his grace. ¹⁷For the law was given by Moses, but the grace and the reality came by Jesus Christ. ¹⁸No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath thoroughly described him.

¹⁹And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites, that they should question him, Who art thou? ²⁰And he confessed, and denied it not; but acknowledged, I am not the Messiah. ²¹And they asked him, What then? art thou Elias? and he said, I am not. Art thou that prophet? and he answered, No. ²²Then said they to him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to those who sent us: What description givest thou of thyself? ²³He said, I am a voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way for the Lord, as said the prophet Isaiah. ²⁴And they who were sent, were of the Pharisees. ²⁵And they questioned him, and said to him, Why then dost thou baptise, if thou be not the Messiah, nor Elias, nor that prophet? ²⁶John answered them, saying, I baptise with water: but in the midst of you hath stood a person, whom ye have not known; ²⁷it is he, though coming after me, who was before me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie. ²⁸These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptising.