John 1:5
and the light shined in the darkness, and the darkness did not perceive it.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
In Context
4In Him was life, and the life was the light of men,
6There came a man—having been sent from God—whose name [is] John,
Cross References
Proverbs 1:22“Until when, you simple, do you love simplicity? And have scorners desired their scorning? And do fools hate knowledge?
John 1:10He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him:
John 12:36while you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.” Jesus spoke these things, and having gone away, He was hid from them,
1 Corinthians 2:14and the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to know [them], because they are discerned spiritually;
Matthew Henry on John 1:2-6
John It is not material to enquire when and where this gospel was written; we are sure that it was given by inspiration of God to John, the brother of James, one of the twelve apostles, distinguished by the honourable character of that disciple whom Jesus loved, one of the first three of the worthies of the Son of David, whom he took to be the witnesses of his retirements, particularly of his transfiguration and his agony. The ancients tell us that John lived longest of all the twelve apostles, and was the only… Read the whole commentary →