Jesus Christ is Lord.  He is the Son of God.  He is the Word which was before the beginning, and He is after all creation has ended, and He always is.  When called "good" by someone in the thirty-three-and-a-half years that He walked upon this Earth, He questioned that person and declared that there is none good but God.

 

 

 

And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judaea beyond Jordan;

2 And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there.

3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?

8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

10 His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.

11 But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.

12 For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

13 Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.

14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

15 And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence.

16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?

17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

18 He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,

19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

20 The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?

21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

23 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.

24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

25 When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?

26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

27 Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?

28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

30 But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.

Matthew 19

 

 

 

 

 

Jesus Christ is the only Hero.

 

Jesus Christ is the only Saviour.

 

Jesus Christ is the only Messiah.

 

Jesus Christ is the only Jehovah Tsidkenu Jireh.

 

Jesus Christ is the only Way, Truth, and Life.

 

Jesus Christ is the only One of the Father.

 

Jesus Christ came as a baby born to a virgin most blessed and favoured whose faithfulness is recorded in her reciting of holy truth in the Scriptures, in that God chose her to bear His Son Who would save mankind from all sinfulness!

 

This very same baby would spend thirty-three-and-a-half years growing in stature, in wisdom, and in favor with God and with man.  The Bible tells us these things!  His written Word also tells us that Jesus Christ is the name which is above all names.  All of creation bows to the name of Jesus Christ!

 

 

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Philippians 2.1-13

 

 

 

In America, some people are taught accurate history about our nation when we are growing up and going to school or being taught at home.  But a problem our nation has is that only some people are taught any accurate history at all, and most people don't learn much actual history about our nation, nor do they know any of the names of the Founding Fathers, and much less do they know any of their words.

 

 

 

Have you ever wondered, "What did our first president think of parties in an election-based democratic government?"  Here is what he said, from his 32-page farewell speech he published on September 19th, 1796, as he was announcing he would not run for a third term:

 

 

 

I have already intimated to you the danger of
parties in the state, with particular reference to the
founding of them on geographical discriminations.
Let me now take a more comprehensive view and
warn you in the most solemn manner against the
baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.
This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our
nature, having its root in the strongest passions of
the human mind. It exists under different shapes in
all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or
repressed; but in those of the popular form it is
seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst
enemy.
The alternate domination of one faction over another,
sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to
party dissension, which in different ages and coun-

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tries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is
itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length
to a more formal and permanent despotism. The
disorders and miseries which result gradually
incline the minds of men to seek security and repose
in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner
or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more
able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns
this disposition to the purposes of his own
elevation on the ruins of public liberty.
Without looking forward to an extremity of this
kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely
out of sight) the common and continual mischiefs
of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the
interest and the duty of a wise people to discourage
and restrain it.
It serves always to distract the public councils
and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates
the community with ill founded jealousies and false
alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against
another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
It opens the door to foreign influence and
corruption, which find a facilitated access to the
government itself through the channels of party

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passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country
are subjected to the policy and will of another.
There is an opinion that parties in free countries
are useful checks upon the administration of the
government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty.
This within certain limits is probably true—
and in governments of a monarchical cast patriotism
may look with indulgence, if not with favor,
upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular
character, in governments purely elective, it is a
spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural
tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of
that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there
being constant danger of excess, the effort ought
to be by force of public opinion to mitigate and assuage
it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a
uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a
flame, lest instead of warming it should consume.

President George Washington

 

 

 

Our nation's first president was prescient in writing these things, and he today describes the problems that lie at the root of many of America's numerous wanton ills.

 

Have you ever wondered what the second president of our country said regarding parties in our government?  Here is what he said in a letter he wrote to Jonathan Jackson, who was a supporter of the Great American Revolution:

 

“ There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.” 

President John Adams

 

 

 

Our early presidents were good examples to follow, and they inspired men and women and children to live with valor and honor and to look up to those in authority, and those in authority back then knew that they had been gifted an enormous gift from God to look after His people whom He brought here through believing in Manifest Destiny, an early American Pioneer doctrine that everything they conquered in the land was theirs by the will of God, and so be it.

 

It sounds astonishing to most people alive today that a person would think to write a thirty-two page letter and actually expect people to read it.  Especially when the examples we get for presidents today are all bought into the 140-character-limit, byte-sized mentality of today, and instead of leading people to a peaceful and content life, they are stoking the flames of dissonance and haste.  When official government announcements are handled through Twitter and the likes, it shows how our government views people, and the way they want people to view them.  Rather than providing for people in a way that God approves of, our government leaders are more concerned about money and public image, and behind the scenes they are all knowingly or unknowingly ushering in the mark of the beast system through the various N.S.T.I.C.-enabled online electronic identity ecosystems that have sprung up in the past couple of decades.

 

What our early Founding Fathers were saying was right for them back then, and they knew that if America was going to survive very long, it would have to overcome what they call the "natural" tendency for governments of free people to organize into factions and parties to war against one another, which would ultimately lead to the most heinous of all government evils: a two-party system.  This is because a two-party system, such as the Red vs. Blue mentality that America subscribes to today, is a lie.  It holds a vote and an election, but the vote does not determine the President.  Two parties determine the president, and America says, "ok!" and goes and "votes" and calls it a "free choice."  It's a joke if it wasn't what it is.

 

There are no good guys in the system and no one is coming to save the day.  It is only going to crash and crash again, and many people inside and outside of the American government/capitalist system that we have seen rise have been plotting its downfall, and positioning themselves to be quite profitable during and after the new/old global body takes a terrible hold in September of 2023, which is by when I believe we will see the abomination of desolation clearly, which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet and by Jesus Christ.

 

The times which are coming upon this Earth, and yea, already are appearing, are unlike any time that has ever happened before, in terms of how tremendously difficult and trying these days will be for all mankind and all life including plants and animals.  The Bible says that peoples' hearts are going to grow cold because of the overspreading of abominations, and that it will be so terrible that God is going to end it all, otherwise all flesh would die.  Before He ends it, though, the world is going to be consumed by greed and evil and violence and lust and unrighteousness in every facet of society.  The Bible describes these days as in the days of Noah, when people were so entrenched in their violence that it is all they thought about, and even though murders and deaths and pillaging and tumult was all around them, they were getting married and going about life as though everything was "normal."

 

There are a lot of people in America who seem to be in a sort of hazy mindset, almost like they've been hypnotized into a suspended sort of reality where they've put their lives on hold for a little while, and they're just waiting for everything to "go back to normal," and then the government's going to make everything all better in exchange for all this time that people have exchanged their "rights" and all the other stuff they depend on their government for.

 

There is no "normal" for America to return to.  "Normal" is not coming back, but Jesus is.

 

What's normal in America that has been normal for a while, but is only recently spoken about?

 

The elections are rigged and the election process is irredeemably broken.  President Trump knows this because it's how he became President.  He hacked the system the first time around, and when he failed to do it again, he just pointed out what's business as usual: the election systems are rigged and fraudulent.

 

Now, "on the other side of the aisle," the most recent President is bringing the full force of the Federal Government against President Trump for supposedly keeping stuff he shouldn't have kept from his time in office, but more than that, President Biden is attacking President Trump in a retaliatory and hateful/deadly way.  It is the tension they have in both directions.  Americans should not be accepting this charade, but it is making a lot of people a lot of money, and Americans seem to believe that our country is just so big that it's going to keep on going, and these kinds of people say stuff like, "we're all in this together," and "this is the way we've been doing it all along," but these truths are going to prove to be part of their downfall, because they are all guilty of doing all their crimes together in the ways they've been lying to the American people all along yet pretending to be the peoples' choice.

 

In a news article from just today, I read that one part of the Government just decided that what another part of the Government said is not to be followed, and that everyone should have disagreed with that first part of the Government when they decided that the investigation into President Trump should be paused while his team has time to review all the documents and evidence that the Government claims they have against President Trump.  Earlier, a judge said that President Trump's team should be allowed to review this stuff that the Government is saying is evidence of wrongdoing.  Now, "the other" part of the Government is saying that the Government is not going to allow President Trump's team to review the documents, and they are going to proceed with the investigation.

 

They cite several reasons why President Trump should not be allowed to stop the investigation against him while his team reviews the documents.  One of the primary points they made was to say that nobody should be allowed to stop an investigation against them while they take time to review the charging documents and evidence, and that a law shouldn't be written to allow just a president that ability.  What they boil it down to is that it would be a gross violation of the separation of powers in the Federal Government.

 

By 1787, the American Federal Government had already established three primary branches of government: the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial branches, and in this year they enshrined in our Constitution this principle of what are called "the separation of powers," which is a mechanism in our Government which was designed as a "checks and balances" system, whereby each of these three branches of this elective Government would be subject to oversight and dependent on the other two branches of Government, to survive.

 

What the evils of the "party system" were described by Presidents George Washington and John Adams and so many other early American leaders have led us inexorably to the very descriptions of the dysfunctions they also warned would be experienced, namely this consolidation of powers so that the three branches of Government are no longer separate, but they have become one solid entity, which is described by God as a big, broken machine given to change and tumult and wrath only.

 

This Government is the anti-law government that God describes would rise in the end of days.  These leaders are the ones we are told to mark as counterfeits.  The propaganda handed down from the cowards who use proxy armies and proxy countries and proxy religions and proxy problems and proxy realities and proxy proxies is all empty and illusory, yet so many people, most people, are so conveniently positioned in such a way, that when this same evil entity which controls almost everything else comes for these bodies which God has given us to take care of as His temple, people will choose damnation and receive the mark of the beast, people will choose damnation and make an image to the beast, because they don't want to lose access to their online "following," or they don't want to miss the next episode of a performance or a show or the next round in the next game they play, or they don't want to lose access to being able to earn money, or they don't want to lose the ability to order things or read the news or stay in touch with their "friends" on Facebook.

 

People have heard so many times "Nothing is what it seems" from those who are supposed to be the ones teaching them, that people simply don't expect to be taught the truth, and people expect to be lied to, because it's business as usual.

 

The very crimes that our presidents accuse each other of are the same crimes they are guilty of.  President Trump may have been guilty of being the president, but it's the president who is guilty of violating the separation of powers, and President Biden is this kind of guilty, too, because the office of the President of the United States has become stale and expired, and it is no longer what it was when it was what it was when it was the first time or the second time.  Today, the President of the United States no longer holds the same honor it once held, and people do not revere these men because they do not deserve reverence.  They are liars, keen on lying, and only able to lie, and even when they try to tell the truth they lie.

 

They could not be the President of the United States of America if they were not a liar, in the way that today's United States of America "elects" its leaders.

 

President Biden is not president because he is the best person for the job or because the American people put him there.  God chose him.  Through all the sinful wills of men, God's will is not frustrated or lost or thwarted, but in all things God's will prevails.  His Word teaches us that it is God Who puts people in power and it is God who removes them from power, and God says that He raises up the foolish to confound the wise.

 

President Trump did not become the nominee of the Republican Party because he was a Republican.  President Trump was not a Republican until he calculated that it was the surest way for him to become President, and even when he had won the nomination, they would not give it to him without him having first signed a paper stating that if he had lost in the primary race, that he agreed he would not go to the Democrat's side and try to get elected over there as a Democratic president.

 

To make things even more complicated, these so-called "leaders" of the people who get elected ostensibly under a banner of trust actually meet with each other in secret meetings and engage in parties and drinking alcohol and a lot of them do drugs together and have strange sex with each other, even though in public they pretend to be absolute enemies.  These same leaders also have these kinds of secret meetings with other leaders from other countries, and they don't always give them names, but sometimes they do, like the Bilderberg Conference, or the Bohemian Grove, and they have "private" counterparts in the corporate world who are not bound by the same "restrictions" as our elected government leaders, and they try to lead the world through places like the World Economic Forum, TEDx, N.P.R., the DEFCON hacker conference, and of course the many interconnected governmental and "non-governmental" arms and fingers of the United Nations.

 

When these leaders get caught for these things, or for other horrible things, sometimes they face some consequences, but in today's world, it seems like there is always a fallguy who ends up going to prison and getting offed, or someone else who takes the flak when some big scandal comes out.  There are people who are under immense pressure from Government people to do or say certain things, or to act a certain way, and if the Government can get these people to bend to their will without their knowledge, through mind control programs like advertisements and games and movies and tv and radio, the Government is just as happy as if they must come down with the full force of the law on someone and tell them that they have a specific leverage point in their fulcrum ledger of bad things that people do, and if these people don't cooperate, they are threatened with the wrath of the United States Government's law against them, and guaranteed to get lost in some dark hole in this big broken machine that they will never escape from.  Many Government agencies are made up almost entirely of grunts who are in this kind of leverage-based mind control, and they are under duress to be willing participants in the Government's part-and-parcel schemes that are ongoing and myriad, and too numerous to list, but most recently the biggest one is called "Operation Warpspeed," which you are all surely acquainted with.

 

President Clinton got caught getting a blowjob in the Oval Office while he was President, from an aide, while he was married and supposedly trusted with our nation's most precious secrets and with the highest and most powerful democratically-elected office in the world.  He supposedly got impeached.  Yet, he remained president and finished out his term like a hero to many people, and is still revered around the world, and even Lady Gaga rewrote the words to one of her songs to perform it for him as she danced for him like a stripper and sang, "A Bill Romance."

 

President Trump instigated a national insurrection where people came from all across the country because his ego egged him on to tell people to go take back their country, and to march down there and he said he would be right there with them.  He then played the coward and didn't go with the people, even though many in the police forces heard the same message and stood down.  He then continued to play the coward by not defending any of the people who got caught up in the legal hassle of having to answer for obeying their President when he claimed the election was stolen, and commanded people to go and take back the nation, with him at their side.  He got impeached twice, but still finished out his term, a hero in many peoples' eyes.  This is the same guy who also said things like, "You can grab women's pussies when you're rich and they let you grab them," yet so many so-called Christians fawn over him because at least he's not Hillary Clinton.

 

As a Christian, our duty is not to vote in a broken country's broken election system for the lesser of two evils.  By choosing the liar whom we like more, the one who is more polished according to our Red or Blue teams' many requirements, our nation has been conditioned into accepting all sorts of evil people as their leaders, and somehow nobody's voice has been able to point out to everyone at once that the system is broken, and this should not happen, so people keep going forward, somewhere acknowledging that it's broken, but, it's just what everyone else is doing, and Grandma and Grandpa will lecture me for two hours or more if they hear someone doesn't vote, so people go to get their little "I Voted" sticker, and then hunker down for the next four years until the next election cycle takes place.

 

As a Christian, our duty is to champion the truth, and to live in it, and to celebrate when others also support the grace and truth of God.  If you give me the choice between two liars, and say that only one of them can be President of the United States of America, then my choice will be to not choose either of your liars, but to refrain from that broken vote, and in the event that anybody ever asks me about it, I will be able to simply explain that I don't ever want anybody to ever get the impression that I rely on this system, or that I thought my vote would make a difference.

 

When I was 18 years old, I joined the United States Navy, and I was very patriotic then, although naïve in more ways than I realized, being young and inexperienced, but I voted for President Bush because I believed that since certain other people around me believed in President Bush, I would vote for him, but then while I was in boot camp, I learned that hundreds of votes had been thrown out due to some litigation by the republican side about the votes not being valid or reliable in some sector.  Then the next day, the number had grown into the thousands, and then into the tens of thousands, until hundreds of thousands of votes were declared unreliable, and were thrown out, uncounted, and people were never told if it was their vote or not.  This was just a tactic among many tactics that I later learned was "business as usual" for these people.  They don't care that this is how they win the office of presidency, they just want to win.

 

I am patriotic today, though my patriotism is truly for the America that is the families and people who believe in the early values of our nation, which was founded on God and which was guided by the Bible for so many early years, up until the late 50s and early 60s.  The Bible used to be a book that was referenced in reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, history, and so many other lessons, until it was declared illegal to be taught by the government beginning in the 1950s.  America was going one direction until then.  This nation we live in today can trace its heritage back to the late 1950s, but it is not easy to find anything that resembles the America that existed before then.

 

I love this country and I am grateful to God that I was born in America and that I have enjoyed American freedoms, and that I know what life was like before September 11th, 2001, and that I was not bamboozled by that magic trick or the tricks that have been foisted upon the American people since, because I truly love the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit truly loves me and guides me and gives me the vision and the wisdom and the food and energy I need for each day, and I am so extravagantly blessed by God in my heart and mind and spirit and soul, and I only want to praise Him and tell others that Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and He tells us that no man may come to the Father but by Him.

 

Jesus Christ is the only One Who has ever claimed to be the One Whom He claimed to be, and He is the only One Who has fulfilled the hundreds of prophecies that were prophesied and recorded about Him hundreds and thousands of years before He was born in a manger, a feeding trough in Bethlehem roughly 2022 years ago.  Many if not all people who adhere to the religions of the world today claim that most religions are all really similar, and that people are really seeking after really similar things, and that it's really ok for people to follow whatever path they feel is the right path for them no matter how strange or wonky it gets, and no matter how disconnected from reality it is, because that's just the mantra that Satan has installed and instilled in the generation alive today, as a means of distraction from Jesus Christ.

 

Satan cannot defeat Jesus Christ because Jesus Christ is God and Satan is a creation of God's, and Jesus Christ has already defeated Satan, having crushed Satan's head under His foot, and spoiled the powers of darkness by dying on the cross and going to that spiritual prison where disobedient souls were, and there He preached to people who were dead, and after three days Jesus Christ Himself took up His life again and rose from the dead, and then walked around on this Earth for forty more days.

 

Satan's only fuel and habitation is wrath, and his wrath is growing because he sees his time is short.  The Bible says this, in several ways.  Satan has already been defeated, and we are living in the aftermath of that battle, as this war plays out over this temporal existence, yet Jesus spoke of when time would end, and we learn in the Bible that this Earth is going to burn, and people will face a lake of fire if they do not repent and cry out to Jesus Christ while there is still time.  During these days, and especially after September 2023, when I believe the mark of the beast and image of the beast will be mandated worldwide, trials and troubles are going to increase, and people are going to reap a lot of the consequences of their own actions, as well as many consequences of the actions of people who went before them and compromised the truth.  Satan is using people by distracting them from Jesus Christ.  That's all he has to do, is get people to look away from Jesus, and then Satan can get them into hopelessness and haste and all sorts of sin that only produces death.

 

Stay focused on Jesus Christ.

 

If you don't know Jesus, find Jesus.

 

If you're not sure how to find Jesus, send me an e.mail at [email protected] and ask, and I'll tell you more, or find a local church where the Pastor loves God and loves people and loves the whole Bible, and go ask him questions about Jesus, and be honest.  God says that those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit, because He is a spirit, and they must worship Him in truth, believing in Him.  If you don't know Who He is that I would capitalize every written reference I make to Him, I would point you to the Bible, and specifically I know of one place where you can start reading, to really understand who is this Jesus Christ.  The book of John is the fourth book in the New Testament.  (The Bible has 39 books in the Old Testament that point forwards to Jesus, and record early human civilization's history, and 27 books in the New Testament which record the life, death, resurrection, and early church of Jesus Christ)

 

The book of John is a great way to understand this God Who loves us so much that He sent His Son to die on the cross for our sins so that whosoever believes on Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life:

 

 

 

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

2 The same was in the beginning with God.

3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.

8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.

9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.

16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

18 No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

19 And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?

20 And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.

21 And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.

22 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?

23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.

24 And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.

25 And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?

26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;

27 He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.

28 These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.

29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

30 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.

31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.

32 And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.

33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.

34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.

35 Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;

36 And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!

37 And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.

38 Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou?

39 He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour.

40 One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.

41 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.

42 And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.

43 The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me.

44 Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.

45 Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.

46 And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.

47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

48 Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.

49 Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.

50 Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than these.

51 And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

John 1