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

光照在黑暗里，黑暗却不接受光。

光照在黑暗里，黑暗却没有胜过光。

光照在黑暗里，黑暗却没有胜过光。

光照进黑暗里，黑暗不能胜过光。

光照在黑暗中，黑暗不能胜过光。

这光在黑暗中照耀，黑暗却没有胜过这光。

光照在黑暗裏，黑暗卻不接受光。

光照在黑暗裏，黑暗卻沒有勝過光。

光照在黑暗裏，黑暗卻沒有勝過光。

光照進黑暗裡，黑暗不能勝過光。

光照在黑暗中，黑暗不能勝過光。

光在黑暗中照耀着，黑暗卻沒有勝過了光。

這光在黑暗中照耀，黑暗卻沒有勝過這光。

光燭於暗、而暗弗識之、

光照於暗、暗者弗識之、○

光照於暗、而暗弗識之、○

光照冥冥。冥冥不領。

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

The light shines in the darkness. But the darkness has not overcome the light.

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

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

And the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not grasp it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil.All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed.

Put your trust in the light while there is still time; then you will become children of the light.” After saying these things, Jesus went away and was hidden from them.But despite all the miraculous signs Jesus had done, most of the people still did not believe in him.This is exactly what Isaiah the prophet had predicted:“ Lord, who has believed our message? To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?”But the people couldn’t believe, for as Isaiah also said,“ The Lord has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts— so that their eyes cannot see, and their hearts cannot understand, and they cannot turn to me and have me heal them.”

“ Wicked people rebel against the light. They refuse to acknowledge its ways or stay in its paths.The murderer rises in the early dawn to kill the poor and needy; at night he is a thief.The adulterer waits for the twilight, saying,‘ No one will see me then.’ He hides his face so no one will know him.Thieves break into houses at night and sleep in the daytime. They are not acquainted with the light.The black night is their morning. They ally themselves with the terrors of the darkness.

But people who aren’t spiritual can’t receive these truths from God’s Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can’t understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means.

Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done.

He came into the very world he created, but the world didn’t recognize him.

“ How long, you simpletons, will you insist on being simpleminded? How long will you mockers relish your mocking? How long will you fools hate knowledge?

For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the Lord.They rejected my advice and paid no attention when I corrected them.