All things were created(A) through him,(B) and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created. In him was life,[a](C) and that life was the light(D) of men. That light shines(E) in the darkness, and yet the darkness did not overcome[b] it.(F)

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  1. 1:3–4 Other punctuation is possible:... not one thing was created. What was created in him was life
  2. 1:5 Or grasp, or comprehend, or overtake; Jn 12:35

All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being(A) in him was life,[a] and the life was the light of all people.(B) The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it.

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  1. 1.4 Or . . . through him. And without him not one thing came into being that has come into being. In him was life

Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.(A) In him was life,(B) and that life was the light(C) of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness,(D) and the darkness has not overcome[a] it.(E)

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  1. John 1:5 Or understood