Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

and the light in the darkness did shine, and the darkness did not perceive it.

New American Standard Bible

The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

And the light shines on in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out.

A Conservative Version

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

The Light shines on in the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it or overpower it or appropriate it or absorb it [and is unreceptive to it].

An Understandable Version

And [His] light continued to shine, [even] in the darkness [of the world], and that darkness did not overcome Him [or, did not fully understand Him].

Anderson New Testament

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness comprehends it not.

Bible in Basic English

And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark.

Common New Testament

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

Daniel Mace New Testament

and the Light shineth in darkness, but the darkness did not receive it.

Darby Translation

And the light appears in darkness, and the darkness apprehended it not.

Godbey New Testament

And the light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.

Goodspeed New Testament

The light is still shining in the darkness, for the darkness has never put it out.

John Wesley New Testament

And the light shineth in darkness, but the darkness perceived it not.

Julia Smith Translation

And light shines in darkness; and darkness comprehended it not.

King James 2000

And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness overcame it not.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And the light shineth in the darkness, but the darkness comprehended it not.

Moffatt New Testament

amid the darkness the Light shone, but the darkness did not master it.

Montgomery New Testament

And the light is shining in the darkness, and the darkness has not overwhelmed it

NET Bible

And the light shines on in the darkness, but the darkness has not mastered it.

New Heart English Bible

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it.

Noyes New Testament

And the light hath been shining in the darkness; and the darkness received it not.

Sawyer New Testament

and the light shone in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.

The Emphasized Bible

And, the light, in the darkness, shineth; and, the darkness, thereof, laid not hold.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness did not comprehend it.

Twentieth Century New Testament

And the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness never overpowered it.

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overpowered it.

Williams New Testament

So the light continues to shine in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it.

World English Bible

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it.

Worrell New Testament

And the light shines in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not.

Worsley New Testament

And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness attained it not.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

the light
φῶς 
Phos 
Usage: 44

φαίνω 
Phaino 
Usage: 22

in
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

σκοτία 
Skotia 
Usage: 10

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

the darkness
σκοτία 
Skotia 
Usage: 10

καταλαμβάνω 
Katalambano 
Usage: 14

it

Usage: 0

Devotionals

Devotionals about John 1:5

Images John 1:5

Context Readings

The Prologue To John's Gospel

4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men, 5 and the light in the darkness did shine, and the darkness did not perceive it. 6 There came a man -- having been sent from God -- whose name is John,


Cross References

Job 24:13-17

They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths.

Proverbs 1:22

'Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:29-30

Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.

John 1:10

in the world he was, and the world through him was made, and the world did not know him:

John 3:19-20

'And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

John 12:36-40

while ye have the light, believe in the light, that sons of light ye may become.' These things spake Jesus, and having gone away, he was hid from them,

Romans 1:28

And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;

1 Corinthians 2:14

and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know them, because spiritually they are discerned;

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