3. All things received being through him, and without him not one thing received being which has received being.
4. In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
5. And the light appears in darkness, and the darkness apprehended it not.
6. There was a man sent from God, his name John.
7. He came for witness, that he might witness concerning the light, that all might believe through him.
8. He was not the light, but that he might witness concerning the light.
9. The true light was that which, coming into the world, lightens every man.
10. He was in the world, and the world had its being through him, and the world knew him not.
11. He came to his own, and his own received him not;
12. but as many as received him, to them gave he the right to be children of God, to those that believe on his name;