December 31, 2011, Gospel

The Holy Gospel According to John   1: 1-18

1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word.
1:2 He was with God in the beginning.
1:3 All things were made through Him, and nothing that was made was made without Him.
1:4 Life was in Him, and Life was the light of men.
1:5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
1:6 There was a man sent by God, whose name was John.
1:7 He arrived as a witness to offer testimony about the Light, so that all would believe through him.
1:8 He was not the Light, but he was to offer testimony about the Light.
1:9 The true Light, which illuminates every man, was coming into this world.
1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world did not recognize him.
1:11 He went to his own, and his own did not accept him.
1:12 Yet whoever did accept him, those who believed in his name, he gave them the power to become the sons of God.
1:13 These are born, not of blood, nor of the will of flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
1:14 And the Word became flesh, and he lived among us, and we saw his glory, glory like that of an only-begotten son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
1:15 John offers testimony about him, and he cries out, saying: “This is the one about whom I said: ‘He who is to come after me, has been placed ahead of me, because he existed before me.’ ”
1:16 And from his fullness, we all have received, even grace for grace.
1:17 For the law was given though Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
1:18 No one ever saw God; the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he himself has described him.

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