Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech: John | Page 2

away the
sin of the world! 001:030 This is He about whom I said, `After me is to
come One who has been put before me, because He was before me.'
001:031 I did not yet know Him; but that He may be openly shown to
Israel is the reason why I have come baptizing in water." 001:032 John
also gave testimony by stating: "I have seen the Spirit coming down
like a dove out of Heaven; and it remained upon Him. 001:033 I did not
yet know Him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me,
"`The One on whom you see the Spirit coming down, and remaining,
He it is who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.' 001:034 "This I have seen, and
I have become a witness that He is the Son of God." 001:035 Again the
next day John was standing with two of his disciples, 001:036 when he
saw Jesus passing by, and said, "Look! that is the Lamb of God!"
001:037 The two disciples heard his exclamation, and they followed
Jesus. 001:038 Then Jesus turned round, and seeing them following He
asked them, "What is your wish?" "Rabbi," they replied--`Rabbi' means
`Teacher'--"where are you staying?" 001:039 "Come and you shall
see," He said. So they went and saw where He was staying, and they

remained and spent that day with Him. It was then about ten o'clock in
the morning. 001:040 Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the
two who heard John's exclamation and followed Jesus. 001:041 He first
found his own brother Simon, and said to him, "We have found the
Messiah!"--that is to say, the Anointed One. 001:042 He brought him to
Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon, son of John: you
shall be called Cephas"-- that is to say, Peter (or `Rock'). 001:043 The
next day, having decided to leave Bethany and go into Galilee, Jesus
found Philip, and invited him to follow Him. 001:044 (Now Philip
came from Bethsaida, the same town as Andrew and Peter.) 001:045
Then Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him
about whom Moses in the Law wrote, as well as the Prophets--Jesus,
the son of Joseph, a man of Nazareth." 001:046 "Can anything good
come out of Nazareth?" replied Nathanael. "Come and see," said Philip.
001:047 Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, and said of him, "Look!
here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceitfulness!" 001:048
"How do you know me?" Nathanael asked. "Before Philip called you,"
said Jesus, "when you were under the fig-tree I saw you." 001:049
"Rabbi," cried Nathanael, "you are the Son of God, you are Israel's
King!" 001:050 "Because I said to you, `I saw you under the fig-tree,'"
replied Jesus, "do you believe? You shall see greater things than that."
001:051 "I tell you all in most solemn truth," He added, "that you shall
see Heaven opened wide, and God's angels going up, and coming down
to the Son of Man." 002:001 Two days later there was a wedding at
Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there, 002:002 and Jesus
also was invited and His disciples. 002:003 Now the wine ran short;
whereupon the mother of Jesus said to Him, "They have no wine."
002:004 "Leave the matter in my hands," He replied; "the time for me
to act has not yet come." 002:005 His mother said to the attendants,
"Whatever he tells you to do, do it." 002:006 Now there were six stone
jars standing there (in accordance with the Jewish regulations for
purification), each large enough to hold twenty gallons or more.
002:007 Jesus said to the attendants, "Fill the jars with water." And
they filled them to the brim. 002:008 Then He said, "Now, take some
out, and carry it to the President of the feast." 002:009 So they carried
some to him. And no sooner had the President tasted the water now
turned into wine, than--not knowing where it came from, though the

attendants who had drawn the water knew-- he called to the bridegroom
002:010 and said to him, "It is usual to put on the good wine first, and
when people have drunk freely, then that which is inferior. But you
have kept the good wine till now." 002:011 This, the first of His
miracles, Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee, and thus displayed His
glorious power; and His disciples believed in Him. 002:012 Afterwards
He went down to Capernaum--He, and His mother, and His brothers,
and His disciples; and they made a short stay there. 002:013 But the
Jewish Passover was approaching, and for this Jesus went up to
Jerusalem. 002:014 And He found in the Temple the dealers in cattle
and sheep and in pigeons, and the