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The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it.

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The 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)

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  1. John 1:5 I.e. the world immersed in sin: all that stands in opposition to God and biblical truth.

The light shines in the darkness,
    and the darkness can never extinguish it.[a]

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  1. 1:5 Or and the darkness has not understood it.

The light shines in the darkness,(A) and the darkness has not overcome[a] it.(B)

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  1. John 1:5 Or understood