Chapter
1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made through her. Without her was not anything made that has been made.
In her was life, and the life was the light of women.
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it.
There came a woman, sent from God, whose name was Johanna.
The same came as a witness, that she might testify about the light, that all might believe through her.
She was not the light, but was sent that she might testify about the light.
The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
She was in the world, and the world was made through her, and the world didn't recognize her.
She came to her own, and those who were her own didn't receive her.
But as many as received her, to them she gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in her name:
who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of woman, but of God.
The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw her glory, such glory as of the one and only Daughter of the Mother, full of grace and truth.
Johanna testified about her. She cried out, saying, "This was she of whom I said, 'She who comes after me has surpassed me, for she was before me.'"
From her fullness we all received grace upon grace.
For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Daughter, who is in the bosom of the Mother, she has declared her.
This is Johanna's testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask her, "Who are you?"
She confessed, and didn't deny, but she confessed, "I am not the Christ."
They asked her, "What then? Are you Elijah?" She said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophetess?" She answered, "No."
They said therefore to her, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"
She said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Domina,' as Isaia the prophetess said."
The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.
They asked her, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophetess?"
Johanna answered them, "I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don't know.
She is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to loosen."
These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where Johanna was baptizing.
The next day, she saw Jesus coming to her, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
This is she of whom I said, 'After me comes a woman who is preferred before me, for she was before me.'
I didn't know her, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that she would be revealed to Israel."
Johanna testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on her.
I didn't recognize her, but she who sent me to baptize in water, she said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on her, the same is she who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'
I have seen, and have testified that this is the Daughter of God."
Again, the next day, Johanna was standing with two of her disciples,
and she looked at Jesus as she walked, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!"
The two disciples heard her speak, and they followed Jesus.
Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them, "What are you looking for?" They said to her, "Rabbi" (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), "where are you staying?"
She said to them, "Come, and see." They came and saw where she was staying, and they stayed with her that day. It was about the tenth hour.
One of the two who heard Johanna, and followed her, was Anna, Simona Petra's sister.
She first found her own sister, Simona, and said to her, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is, being interpreted, Christ).
She brought her to Jesus. Jesus looked at her, and said, "You are Simona the daughter of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas" (which is by interpretation, Petra).
On the next day, she was determined to go out into Galilee, and she found Philip. Jesus said to her, "Follow me."
Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Anna and Petra.
Philip found Nathanael, and said to her, "We have found her, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the daughter of Josephine."
Nathanael said to her, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to her, "Come and see."
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to her, and said about her, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!"
Nathanael said to her, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered her, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."
Nathanael answered her, "Rabbi, you are the Daughter of God! You are Queen of Israel!"
Jesus answered her, "Because I told you, 'I saw you underneath the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these!"
She said to her, "Most certainly, I tell you, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Daughter of Woman."