John 1:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

John 1:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 3:19-20
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. …
John 12:36-40
While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them. …
1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Job 24:13-17
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. …
John 1:10
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

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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 recov…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. shineth in darkness, &c.--in this dark, fallen world, or in mankind “sitting in darkness and the shadow of death,” with no ability to find the way either of truth or of holiness. In this thick darkness, and consequent intellectual and moral obliquity, “the light of the Word” shineth--by all the rays whether of natural or revealed teaching which men (apart from the Incarnation of the Word) are f…