John 16:28

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is called “The Word of God.”

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

The same was in the beginning with God.

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;” which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

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

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

For there are three who testify:

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

“To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:

Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.

Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,

For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered, “Where I am going, you can’t follow now, but you will follow afterwards.”

of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,

a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:

He said, “Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.” ’ ”

Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Go tell my brothers that they should go into Galilee, and there they will see me.”

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

But he said to them, “I must preach the good news of God’s Kingdom to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent.”

He went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and traveling on to Jerusalem.

Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”

My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.

Jesus answered them, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God,

Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.

Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went out, and said to them, “Who are you looking for?”

After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.”

When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually.

who testified to God’s word and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.

For the Lord Yahweh will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I won’t be disappointed.

For you always have the poor with you; but you don’t always have me.

Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, “Sleep on now, and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

He took the twelve aside, and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.

Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.”

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’ and, ‘Because I go to the Father’?”

Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

He said to them, “Let’s go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because I came out for this reason.”

Jesus answered them, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going.

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him,

But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.

For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.”

It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem

While he blessed them, he withdrew from them, and was carried up into heaven.

For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”

Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

You know where I go, and you know the way.”

You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

Oh that you were like my brother, who nursed from the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; yes, and no one would despise me.