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