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NASB | John 1:5 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 1:5 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]. [Gen 1:3] |
Bible Question:
I need more explanation on "Light in the darkness" Many thanks. |
Bible Answer: Jesus is the Light of the World. The world was made dark by the fall of man, but John recognized Jesus as the light. Ray C. Stedman says in WHO IS JESUS? : It (the introduction in the gospel of John) focuses on the central fact of Christian faith: Christianity is not a philosophy; it is about a Person, and that Person is central to all Christian faith. To take Jesus out of Christianity would be like taking numbers out of mathematics, like taking doctors out of medicine, or like trying to think of daylight without the sun. Jesus is absolutely central to Christian faith. That is what constitutes Christianity as a unique religion. All the other great religions of earth center upon the teaching, the ideas, the philosophies that are represented in them, but not Christianity. It centers upon a marvelous, beautiful, remarkable, astonishing Person. That is the Light of the world. |
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