John 1:4-6

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⁴In Him was life [and the power to bestow life], and the life was the Light of men. ⁵The Light shines on in the ^[a]darkness, and the darkness did not understand it or overpower it or appropriate it or absorb it [and is unreceptive to it].^(A)

The Witness of John the Baptist

⁶There came a man commissioned and sent from God, whose name was ^[b]John.^(B)

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Footnotes

John 1:5 I.e. the world immersed in sin: all that stands in opposition to God and biblical truth.
John 1:6 The births of both John the Baptist and Jesus were foretold by the angel, Gabriel (Luke 1:5-80). This passage is about John the Baptist, the son of Zacharias the priest and his wife, Elizabeth. Elizabeth was related to Mary the mother of Jesus (Luke 1:36). John the Baptist is considered to be the last of the OT prophets, and is not to be confused with John the Apostle who wrote this Gospel, three brief letters (1 John, 2 John, 3 John) and Revelation.