4In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
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Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. …
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Austin says ( de Civitate Dei , lib. 10, cap. 29) that his friend Simplicius told him he had heard a Platonic philosopher say that these first verses of St. John’s gospel were worthy to be written in letters of gold . The learned Francis Junius, in the account he gives of his own life, tells how he was in his youth infected with loose notions in religion, and by the grace of God was wonderfully re…
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