Jesus

He led them out toward Beit-Anyah; then, raising his hands, he said a b’rakhah over them;

and as he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven.

They bowed in worship to him, then returned to Yerushalayim, overflowing with joy.

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

He was with God in the beginning.

All things came to be through him, and without him nothing made had being.

In him was life, and the life was the light of mankind.

He came to be a testimony, to bear witness concerning the light; so that through him, everyone might put his trust in God and be faithful to him.

He himself was not that light; no, he came to bear witness concerning the light.

This was the true light, which gives light to everyone entering the world.

He was in the world — the world came to be through him — yet the world did not know him.

He came to his own homeland, yet his own people did not receive him.

But to as many as did receive him, to those who put their trust in his person and power, he gave the right to become children of God,

The Word became a human being and lived with us, and we saw his Sh’khinah, the Sh’khinah of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth.

Yochanan witnessed concerning him when he cried out, “This is the man I was talking about when I said, ‘The one coming after me has come to rank ahead of me, because he existed before me.’”

We have all received from his fullness, yes, grace upon grace.

For the Torah was given through Moshe; grace and truth came through Yeshua the Messiah.

No one has ever seen God; but the only and unique Son, who is identical with God and is at the Father’s side — he has made him known.

he was very straightforward and stated clearly, “I am not the Messiah.”

He answered in the words of Yesha‘yahu the prophet, “I am The voice of someone crying out: ‘In the desert make the way of Adonai straight!’”

They asked him, “If you are neither the Messiah nor Eliyahu nor ‘the prophet,’ then why are you immersing people?”

To them Yochanan replied, “I am immersing people in water, but among you is standing someone whom you don’t know.

The next day, Yochanan saw Yeshua coming toward him and said, “Look! God’s lamb! The one who is taking away the sin of the world!

This is the man I was talking about when I said, ‘After me is coming someone who has come to rank above me, because he existed before me.’

I myself did not know who he was, but the reason I came immersing with water was so that he might be made known to Isra’el.”