John 1

Understanding John Chapter 1 in Today's World

John 1 introduces Jesus as "the Word" - which might sound abstract but it's actually revolutionary. John's saying Jesus is literally God's communication to humanity made flesh. For Gen Z, this is about God meeting us where we are, speaking our language, and making the divine accessible. Jesus isn't some distant deity - He's God choosing to experience human life, including all its struggles and joys.

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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. No cap, that's the ultimate vibe.

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The same was in the beginning with God. Straight up, they were homies from day one.

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All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. He created everything, fr.

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In him was life; and the life was the light of men. His energy was pure light, lit vibes only.

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And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. The light was shining, but the dark was sus, didn't get it.

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There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. John popped off, sent by God for real.

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The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was there to hype up the Light, so everyone could catch the rizz.

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He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. John wasn't the Light, just the hype man for it.

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That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. The true Light? Total game changer, it hits different.

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He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He was here, but the world was totally clueless, savage.

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He rolled up to his peeps, but they weren't vibin' with him, no cap.

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But the ones who did vibe with him got the power to be like, "We're the fam of God," if they believe in his name, fr.

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They were born, not from blood or human plans, but straight from God, periodt.

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The Word became flesh and chilled with us, and we saw his glory, the kinda glory that's goated, full of grace and truth.

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John was out here hyping him up, shouting, "This dude is the one I was talking about, he's the real deal, no cap!"

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From his fullness, we all got blessed, grace on grace, you feel?

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Moses brought the law, but Jesus came through with grace and truth, that's lit.

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No one's ever seen God, but the only Son, who's tight with the Father, he's the one who shows him to us.

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This is John's story when the Jews sent some priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

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He kept it real and said, "I'm not the Christ, just so you know."

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They were like, "So what's the vibe? You Elias or nah?" And he's all, "No cap, I'm not. You tryna say I'm that prophet? Nah fam."

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Then they hit him with, "Who even are you? We gotta tell the squad who sent us. What's your deal?"

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He was like, "I'm just the voice out here yelling in the wild, making the path for the Lord straight, just like the prophet Esaias said."

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The crew that came to him were straight up Pharisees.

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They asked him, "Why you out here baptizing if you ain't the Christ, Elias, or that prophet?"

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John was like, "I'm just dunking people in water, but there's someone chillin' among you that you don't even know."

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"That's the one who's coming after me, and he's way more goated than I amβ€”I'm not even worthy to untie his kicks."

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All this went down in Bethabara past the Jordan, where John was doing his baptizing thing.

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The next day, John sees Jesus rolling up and says, "Yo, check it! The Lamb of God who's gonna take away the world's sin."

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"This is the dude I was talking about, the one who's coming after me, but he's actually been here before me."

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I didn't know him, but I came through to show Israel what's up, so I'm out here baptizing with water.

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John was like, "I saw the Spirit drop down from heaven like a dove, and it chillaxed on him."

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I didn't know him, but the one who sent me to baptize said, "The dude you see the Spirit vibe with is the one who baptizes with the Holy Ghost."

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I peeped it and can confirm, this is the Son of God.

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The next day, John was just standing there with two of his homies.

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He saw Jesus walking by and was like, "Yo, check out the Lamb of God!"

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The two homies heard him and decided to follow Jesus.

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Jesus turned around and asked, "What are you guys looking for?" They were like, "Rabbi, where you chilling?"

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He said, "Come and see." They rolled up and saw where he was staying, and they hung out with him that day, it was about the tenth hour.

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One of the two who heard John and followed him was Andrew, Simon Peter's bro.

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He first finds his bro Simon and says, "Yo, we found the Messiah, aka the Christ. Lit!"

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He brings him to Jesus, and Jesus checks him out and goes, "You're Simon, son of Jona. From now on, you're Cephas, which means a stone. Goated!"

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The next day, Jesus is like, "I'm heading to Galilee," and finds Philip, saying, "Follow me, fam."

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Philip's from Bethsaida, where Andrew and Peter are from. No cap.

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Philip finds Nathanael and says, "We found the dude Moses and the prophets wrote about, Jesus from Nazareth, son of Joseph. Bussin!"

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Nathanael's like, "Can anything good come outta Nazareth?" Philip's like, "Come and see, bro."

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Jesus sees Nathanael coming and says, "Look, an Israelite for real, no sus vibes!"

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Nathanael asks, "How do you know me?" Jesus replies, "Before Philip called you, I saw you chillin' under the fig tree."

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Nathanael responds, "Rabbi, you're the Son of God; you're the King of Israel. Periodt!"

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Jesus says, "Just 'cause I saw you under the fig tree, you believe? Bet, you'll see even greater things!"

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Jesus was like, "No cap, you're gonna see heaven pop off, with angels vibing up and down on the Son of Man."

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