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5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome1:5 Or understood it.
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5 And the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not 1:5 Or overpower grasp it.
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5 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not Or overpower comprehend it.
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5 The Light shines on in the 1:5 I.e. the world immersed in sin: all that stands in opposition to God and biblical truth. darkness, and the darkness did not understand it or overpower it or appropriate it or absorb it [and is unreceptive to it]. [Gen 1:3]
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5 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome1:5 Or comprehended it.
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5 The light shines in the darkness. But the darkness has not overcome the light.
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