3. Introduction: Dogmatic. The Work of the Incarnate Divine Dispensation. Jn. 1:1–18.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being that has come into being. In him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.

There was a man sent from God; his name was John. He came to bear witness to the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness to the Light.

The true Light was coming, which enlightens every man who comes into the world. He was in the world, and the world came into being through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But to as many as received Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God, who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; and we saw His glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father. John bore witness concerning Him and, crying out, said: This is He of whom I said, He who comes after me has come to be before me, because He was before me.

And from His fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God; the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has revealed Him.

Jn 1:1-18