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OET-RV by cross-referenced section YHN 1:1

YHN 1:1–1:18 ©

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The coming of the true light

Yhn 1:1–18

1:1 The coming of the true light

1In the beginning was the message,[fn] and the message was with God, and the message was and is God. 2The message was with God even at the creation of the universe. 3Everything came into existence through the messenger[fn]—not even one thing came into existence apart from him. 4He holds life, and that life is the light of humankind. 5And that light is shining in the darkness, and darkness cannot overcome him.

6[ref]A man arrived who had been sent by God. His name was Yohan. 7He came as a testimony to tell about the light so that everyone would believe the light. 8Yohan himself wasn’t the light—he was merely the announcer of the light. 9The true light which enlightens every person was coming into the world.

10He was in the world and he’s the creator of the world, and yet the world didn’t even know him. 11He came to his own chosen people, but they wouldn’t accept him, 12however anyone who would accept him and trusted in his authority, he gave them the right to become children of God 13not physical children and not coming from human actions, but children of God.

14And the message became a human and lived here among us and we saw his greatness—the greatness of an only child of the father—full of grace and truth.

15Yohan explained about him and loudly told everyone, “This is the one I meant when I said, ‘There’s someone coming after me, yet who came before me, because he existed before I did!’ ”

16Because he has so much, we all received grace and then even more grace. 17The commandments came to us through Mosheh, but grace and truth came to us through Yeshua the messiah. 18No one has ever actually seen God, but the human son born from God the father and in close touch with him, he was the one to explain God to us.


1:1 TD: This passage is complex to translate because the message was also the messenger—that is, Yeshua came not only to teach about getting saved, but also to become the actual way to be saved!

1:3 Lit. him.


Collected OET-RV cross-references

Mat 3:1:

3:1 Yohan-the-immerser’s preaching

(Mark 1:1-8, Luke 3:1-18, Yhn 1:19-28)

3That was the time when Yohan-the-immerser started preaching in the Yudean wilderness

Mrk 1:4:

4Yohan turned up in the wilderness announcing that people should get immersed in water in order to show that their sins have been forgiven.

Luk 3:1-2:

3:1 Yohan-the-immerser’s preaching

(Yhn 1:19-28, Mark 1:1-8, Mat. 3:1-12)

3It was the fifteenth year of the rule of Caesar Tiberius when Pontius Pilate was the governor of Yudea and Herod was the ruler of the Galilean quarter. His brother Philip was the ruler of the Iturean quarter and of the region of Traconitis, and Lysanias was the ruler of the Abilene quarter. 2Annas and Caiaphas were the high priests in Yerushalem, and this was the time when Yohan (son of Zechariah) began preaching God’s message in the wilderness.