1 [Note: In principio erat uerbum. Her onginð þæt god-spell þe Iohannes se godspellere ge-wrat on pathmos þam eiglande. ] On anginne ærest wæs word. & þæt word wæs mid gode. & god wæs þt word.
2 þæt wæs on fruman mid gode.
3 ealle þyng wæren ge-worhte þurh hyne. & nan þyng næs ge-worht butan hym.
4 þæt wæs lyf þe on hym ge-worht wæs. & þt lyf wæs manne leoht.
5 & þæt leoht lyhte on þeostrum. & þeostreo þæt ne ge-namen.
6 Man wæs fram gode asend. þæs name wæs Iohannes.
7 þes com to ge-witnesse. þæt he ge-wytnesse kyðde be þam leohte. þæt ealle menn þurh hyne ge-lefdon.
8 Næs he leoht. ac þæt he wytnesse forð-bære be þam leohte.
9 Soð leoht wæs. þæt on-lyht ælcne cumendne man on þysne middan-eard.
10 he wæs on midden-earde. & mid [dan]-eard wæs ge-worht þurh hyne. & middan-eard hyne ne ge-cneow.
11 To hys agene he com. & hy hyne ne under-fengen.
12 Soðliche swa hwylche swa hyne under-fengen. he sealde heom an-weald þæt hyo wæren godes bearn. þam þe ge-lefeð on hys namen.
13 Þa ne synd akende of blode ne of flæsces willen. ne of weres willen. Ac hyo synt of gode akennede.
14 Ænd þt word wæs flæsc ge-worden. & eardede on üs. & we ge-segen hys wulder swylche akennedes wuldor of fæder þt wæs ful myd gyfe. & soðfæstnesse.