The Lord Jesus, God’s Christ, was with God, our father, in the beginning.  In him is life and that life is the light for people in the world. That light shines in the darkness and the darkness cannot defeat it. He came into a world that was his own, some did not accept him, but by the father’s grace some people did accept him and believe on his name. To those people he gave the right to become children of God, as if we were born of God, himself.

The Lord Jesus is the word of God and the Word took on flesh that he could live among us; thus those who are god’s could see and hear and touch God’s glory.  The word is full of grace and truth; from him we receive one blessing after another. He is himself God and is with the father. He is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.