WE ARE JIMMY AND AMMY

About me

WORD BECOMES HUMAN 11In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and
the Word was God. 2He was already with God in the beginning.
3Everything came into existence through him. Not one thing that exists
was made without him.
4He was the source of life, and that life was the light for humanity.
5The light shines in the dark, and the dark has never extinguished it.a
6God sent a man named John to be his messenger. 7John came to declare
the truth about the light so that everyone would become believers through
his message. 8John was not the light, but he came to declare the truth about
the light.
9The real light, which shines on everyone, was coming into the world.
10He was in the world, and the world came into existence through him. Yet,
the world didn’t recognize him. 11He went to his own people, and his own
people didn’t accept him. 12However, he gave the right to become God’s children
to everyone who believed in him. 13These are people who haven’t been
born in a physical way—from a human impulse or from a husband’s desire bto
have a childn . Their birth was from God.
14The Word became human and lived among us. We saw his glory. It was
the glory that the Father shares with his only Son, a glory full of kindnessb and
truth.
15(John declared the truth about him when he said loudly, “This is the
person about whom I said, ‘The one who comes after me was before me
because he existed before I did.’ ”)
16Each of us has received one gift after another because of all that the Word
is. 17The Teachings were given through Moses, but kindness and truth came
into existence through Jesus Christ. 18No one has ever seen God. God’s only
Son, the one who is closest to the Father’s heart, has made him known.
JOHN PREPARES THE WAY—Matthew 3:1-12; Mark 1:1-8; Luke 3:1-
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19This was John’s answer when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem
to ask him, “Who are you?” 20John didn’t refuse to answer. He told them
clearly, “I’m not the Messiah.”
21They asked him, “Well, are you Elijah?”
John answered, “No, I’m not.”
Then they asked, “Are you the prophet?”
John replied, “No.”
22So they asked him, “Who are you? Tell us so that we can take an answer
back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
23John said, “I’m a voice crying out in the desert, ‘Make the way for the
Lord straight,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”