John 1:5

5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome^[a] it.

John 1:5 in Other Translations

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

5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it.

5 The Life-Light blazed out of the darkness; the darkness couldn't put it out.

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

5 The light shines in the dark, and the dark has never extinguished it.

5 That light shines in the darkness, yet the darkness did not overcome it.

5 The light shines in the darkness. But the darkness has not understood it.

John 1:5 In-Context

3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.

5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John.

7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe.

Cross References

• 1. Psalms 18:28
• 2. John 3:19

Footnotes

• [a] Or "understood"