Inítium sancti Evangélii secúndum Ioánnem (1,1-18)
In princípio erat Verbum, et Verbum erat apud Deum, et Deus erat Verbum. Hoc erat in princípio apud Deum. Ómnia per ipsum facta sunt, et sine ipso factum est nihil, quod factum est; in ipso vita erat, et vita erat lux hóminum, et lux in ténebris lucet, et ténebræ eam non comprehendérunt. Fuit homo missus a Deo, cui nomen erat Ioánnes; hic venit in testimónium, ut testimónium perhibéret de lúmine, ut omnes créderent per illum. Non erat ille lux, sed ut testimónium perhibéret de lúmine. Erat lux vera, quæ illúminat omnem hóminem, véniens in mundum. In mundo erat, et mundus per ipsum factus est, et mundus eum non cognóvit. In própria venit, et sui eum non recepérunt. Quotquot autem accepérunt eum, dedit eis potestátem fílios Dei fíeri, his, qui credunt in nómine eíus, qui non ex sanguínibus neque ex voluntáte carnis neque ex voluntáte viri, sed ex Deo nati sunt. Et Verbum caro factum est et habitávit in nobis; et vídimus glóriam eíus, glóriam quasi Unigéniti a Patre, plenum grátiæ et veritátis. Ioánnes testimónium pérhibet de ipso et clamat dicens: “Hic erat, quem dixi: Qui post me ventúrus est, ante me factus est, quia prior me erat.” Et de plenitúdine eíus nos omnes accépimus, et grátiam pro grátia; quia lex per Móysen data est, grátia et véritas per Iésum Christum facta est. Deum nemo vidit umquam; unigénitus Deus, qui est in sinum Patris, ipse enarrávit.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word. This was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing. That which was made, in him was life, and the life was the light of men: and the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. This man came for testimony; to give testimony of the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but to give testimony of the light. It was the true light, which lighteneth every man that cometh into this world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came into his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made the sons of God, to those that believe in his name. Who, not of blood, nor of the will of flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God are born. And The Word Was Made Flesh, and dwelt in us (and we saw the glory of him, glory as it were of the Only-begotten of the Father) full of grace and verity. John giveth testimony of him, and cryeth saying: This was he of whom I spake, He that shall come after me, is made before me: because he was before me. And of his fullness we all have received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moyses, grace and verity was made by Jesus Christ. God no man hath seen at any time: the only-begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared.
