¹⁴ But John tried to deter him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?”

² just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first^(A) were eyewitnesses^(B) and servants of the word.^(C)

The Incarnation of the Word of Life

1 That which was from the beginning,^(A) which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes,^(B) which we have looked at and our hands have touched^(C)—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life.