OrthJBC - John - 1

1:1  Bereshis (In the Beginning) was the Dvar Hashem [Yeshayah 55:11; Bereshis 1:1], and the Dvar Hashem was agav (along with) Hashem [Mishle 8:30; 30:4], and the Dvar Hashem was nothing less, by nature, than Elohim! [Tehillim 56:11(10); Yochanan 17:5; Rev. 19:13]

1:2  Bereshis (In the Beginning) this Dvar Hashem was with Hashem [Mishle 8:30].

1:3  All things through him came to be, and without him came to be not one thing which came into being. [Tehillim 33:6,9; Mishle 30:4]

1:4  In him was Chayyim (Life) and the Chayyim (Life) was the Ohr (Light) of Bnei Adam. [Tehillim 36:10 (9)]

1:5  And the Ohr (Light) shines in the choshech (darkness) [Tehillim 18:28], and the choshech did not grasp it. [Yeshayah 9:1] YOCHANAN OF THE TEVILAH OF TESHUVA COMES TO BEAR SOLEMN EDUT TO THE OHR HAOLAM: REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH

1:6  There came an ish haElohim, a man of G-d, having been sent from Hashem. His name was Yochanan.

1:7  This Yochanan came for an eidus (testimony of witness), that he might give solemn edut (testimony) about the Ohr (Light), that kol Bnei Adam might have emunah (faith) through him.

1:8  This ish haElohim was not the Ohr (Light), but he came that he might give solemn edut (testimony) about the Ohr (Light).

1:9  The Ohr, the Ohr haAmiti (the true Light), which gives haskalah (rational enlightenment) to kol Bnei Adam (all mankind), was coming into the Olam Hazeh.

1:10  He was in the Olam Hazeh, the Olam (world) came to be through him [Tehillim 33:6,9]; yet the Olam Hazeh did not recognize him.

1:11  He came to his own [Klal Yisroel], and his own did not receive him [Yeshayah 53:3]. AS MANY AS BECOME MEKABEL REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH AND DEDICATE THEIR LIFE TO REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH HAVE THE TOKEF (VALIDITY) TO BECOME YELADIM HAELOHIM, BNEI MELECH (CHILDREN OF G-D), THE ONES HAVING EMUNAH IN SHMO (HIS NAME, TRANS. NOTE: SEE DEVARIM 14:1; ZECHARYAH 3:8; 6:11-12; NEHEMYAH 8:17; EZRA 3:8 WHERE THE TZEMACH OR REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH IS INDICATED BY THE PERSONAL NAME YEHOSHUA, WHICH AS ACTS 7:45 SHOWS IS THE NAME OF BOTH JOSHUA BEN NUN AND OUR MOSHI'A, THE CARPENTER-REBBE-CHOCHMAH OMAN ETZLO BEN DOVID, BEN HAELOHIM--SEE YOCHANAN 1:49; MISHLE 30:4; 8:30)

1:12  But as many as received him, to them the Dvar Hashem gave the matanah (gift) of the authorization [of adoption] to become yeladim haElohim [Devarim 14:1], to

1:13  the ones whose being born was not by the agency of natural descent, nor by the ratzon (will) of basar (fallen human nature), nor by the ratzon of a gever (male)--rather, to the ones born of G-d (Yochanan 3:3,7). THE MISHKAN OF THE SHEKHINAH THAT HASHEM HAS RAISED UP

1:14  And the Dvar Hashem took on gufaniyut (corporeality) and made his Mishkan (Tabernacle) among us [Yechezkel 37:27; Yeshayah 7:14], and we gazed upon his Kavod [Shemot 33:18; 40;34; Yeshayah 60:1-2], the Shechinah of the Ben Yachid from Elohim HaAv, full of Hashem's Chesed (favor) and Emes.

1:15  And Yochanan gives solemn edut (testimony) about him and has cried out [as a maggid for Moshiach], "This was he about whom I said,`Hu HaBah (He who comes [Bereshis 49:10; Yechezkel 21:27], i.e. Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach) He who comes after me is really before me in priority, because, before I came to be, he was(8:58).'"

1:16  For from the kol melo (all the plentitude) of him we all received Chesed upon Chesed.

1:17  Because the matan Torah (giving of the Torah) was graciously bestowed through Moshe Rabbeinu [Devarim 32:46 Shemot 31:18; 34:28], but Chesed and Emes Hashem came through [Rebbe,] Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua [Shemot 34:6; Tehillim 25:10; 40:11; 85:11; Yochanan 1:49].

1:18  No one has ever seen Hashem [Shemot 33:20]. It is Elohim the Ben Yachid (who shares the nature of Hashem), it is he, the one being in the kheyk (bosom) of HaAv, this one is Hashem's definitive derush (exposition). YOCHANAN [MALACHI 3:23 (4:5)] OF THE TEVILAH OF TESHUVA AND HIS SOLEMN EDUT POINTING TO REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH, THE SEH HAELOHIM WHO TAKES AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD, AS THE BEN HAELOHIM

1:19  And this is the solemn edut (testimony) of Yochanan, when those of Yehudah sent kohanim and L'viim from Yerushalayim to him that they might ask him, "Mi atah? (Who are you?)."

1:20  Yochanan made hoda'a (confession, admission)...he did not make hakhchashah (denial) [Yochanan 18:17], he made hoda'a (confession), and said clearly, "I am not the [Rebbe,] Melech HaMoshiach."

1:21  And they asked Yochanan, "What, then? Are you Eliyahu haNavi? and Yochanan says, "I am not." "Are you the Navi? (Devarim 18:15,18) And he answered, "Lo' ("No").

1:22  They said then to him, "Mi atah?--that we may give an teshuvah to the ones who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

1:23  Yochanan said, "I am a KOL KOREY BAMIDBAR, make straight the DERECH HASHEM! (Yeshayah 40:3, Targum Hashivim), as Yeshayah haNavi said."

1:24  And the ones that had been sent were of the Perushim.

1:25  And the Perushim asked Yochanan, "If you are not the [Rebbe,] Melech HaMoshiach nor Eliyahu nor the Navi, then why do you administer the mikveh mayim's tevilah?"

1:26  Yochanan answered the Perushim, "I give a tevilah in a mikveh mayim; among you is standing one of whom you do not have da'as.

1:27  "Hu HaBah (he who comes, i.e. the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach), that is, He who comes after me is one that I am not worthy even to untie the thong of his sandal."

1:28  These events took place in Beit-Anyah (Bethany), beyond the Yarden River, which Yochanan was using as a mikveh mayim in which to administer the tevilah. THE SEH HAELOHIM, REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH

1:29  On the next day, Yochanan sees Yehoshua coming to him, and Yochanan says, "Hinei! The Seh HaElohim (Bereshis 22:8; Shemot 12:5-13; Yeshayah 53:7), the one carrying away the avonot of Olam Hazeh (sins of this Olam Hazeh, Yeshayah 53:6-7,12; Vayikra 16:22).

1:30  This is he about whom I said, "After me comes an ish (Zecharyah 6:12) who is really before me in priority, because, before I came to be, he was (8:58).

1:31  "And I did not recognize him, but that he might be manifested to Klal Yisroel, I came, therefore, administering the mikveh mayim's tevilah."

1:32  And Yochanan gave solemn edut (testimony), "I have seen the Ruach Hakodesh descending like a yonah (dove) out of Shomayim and remaining upon him. (Yeshayah 11:2)

1:33  "And I did not recognize him, but the One who sent me to administer the mikveh mayim's tevilah said to me, `Upon whomever you see the Ruach Hakodesh descending and remaining, this is the One administering the tevilah in the Ruach Hakodesh.' [Yeshayah 11:2]

1:34  "And I have seen and I have given solemn edut (testimony) that this One is the Ben HaElohim."[Shmuel Bais 7:14; Tehillim 2:7; Divrey Hayamin Alef 17:10-14; Mishle 8:30; 30:4] THE FIRST TALMIDIM OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH

1:35  On the next day, Yochanan was standing with two of his talmidim.

1:36  And as Yochanan watched Yehoshua walking by, Yochanan says, "Hinei! The Seh HaElohim!" (Bereshis 22:8; Shemot 12:5-13; Yeshayah 53:7)

1:37  And the two talmidim heard Yochanan speaking and they followed after him.

1:38  When he turned and saw them following, he says to them, "Mah tevakkeshu? (What do you seek?)" And they said to him, "Rebbe (which means, being translated, my Master Moreh [teacher], where is your mekom megurim (dwelling place)?"

1:39  And he says to them, "Bo'u u're'u! (Come and see!)" They went, therefore, and saw his mekom megurim, and remained with him that day. The hour was about the tenth (four oclock in the afternoon).

1:40  One of the two was the Achi Shimon Kefa. His name was Andrew. He was one of the two who heard Yochanan and followed him.

1:41  Andrew first finds his own Achi Shimon Kefa and says to him, "We have found the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach!" (the word, being translated, means "Messiah"). [Daniel 9:25; Tehillim 2:2; Shmuel Alef 2:10]

1:42  Andrew led Shimon to Yehoshua. When Yehoshua gazed at Shimon, he said, "You are Shimon Bar Yonah. You will be called Kefa, which is translated Petros [Rock]." [Bereshis 17:5,15; 32:28; 35:10] THE KERI'AH (CALL, SUMMONS) OF PHILIPPOS AND NATAN'EL; NATAN'EL VIEWED BY MOSHIACH AS A SHAYNER YID

1:43  On the next day he wanted to go out into the Galil, and he finds Philippos, and says to Philippos, "Follow me [as my talmid]." [Melachim Alef 19:19]

1:44  Now Philippos was from Beit-Tzaidah, the town of Andrew and Kefa.

1:45  Philippos finds Natan'el and says to him, "He whom Moshe Rabbenu wrote of in the Sefer Torah, he whom the Nevi'im also wrote of--Yehoshua ben Yosef [ben Dovid], from Natzeret--we have found! [Devarim 18:18; Yeshayah 7:14; 9:5[6]; Yechezkel 34:23]

1:46  And Natan'el said to Philippos, "Can anything good come out of Natzeret? [7:41; Yeshayah 11:1; Zecharyah 6:11-12]" Philippos says to Natan'el, "Bo'u u're'u! (Come and see!)" [Melachim Bais 6:13]

1:47  Yehoshua saw Natan'el coming to him, and he says,"Hinei! A genuine Ben Yisroel, in whom is no tarmit (deceit)." [Tehillim 32:2; Zefanyah 3:13]

1:48  Natan'el says to "How do you have da'as of me?" In reply, Yehoshua said to him, "Before you received your keri'ah from Philippos, while you were beneath the aitz te'enah (fig tree, Michoh 4:4; Zecharyoh 3:10), I watched you." YEHOSHUA IS FIRST CALLED REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH BY HIS TALMIDIM

1:49  In reply, Natan'el said to him, "Rebbe, you are the Ben HaElohim [SHEMUEL BAIS 7:14; TEHILLIM 2:7; 89:26-27], the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach of Yisroel." YEHOSHUA ALLOWS HIMSELF TO BE ADDRESSED AS REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH BUT ADDS THE ADDITIONAL MESSIANIC TITLE FROM DANIEL 7:13-14 OF THE BEN HAADAM

1:50  In reply, Yehoshua said to Natan'el, "Because I told you that I watched you beneath the aitz te'enah, do you have emunah (faith)? Greater than these things you will see."

1:51  And he says to Natan'el, "Omein, omein, I say to you, you will see Shomayim having been opened and malachim (angels) of Hashem ascending and descending on the Ben HaAdam." [Daniel 7:13-14; Zafanyah 3:15; Bereshis 28:12].