⁵ The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it.

⁹ The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.^[a](A)

¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, yet the world did not know him.^{(B) 11} He came to what was his own,^[b] and his own people did not accept him. ¹² But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God,^{(C) 13} who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.^(D)