John 1:5 Bible Study with audio sermon

John 1:55 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend[a] it.
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Jesus is the light and men are the darkness who do not understand the light...

Jesus is able to shine despite the darkness

Psalm 139:12 Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You, But the night shines as the day; The darkness and the light are both alike to You. The darkness cannot hide from Jesus because He has authority over the darkness and the light

Luke 17:24 For as the lightning that flashes out of one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven, so also the Son of Man will be in His day. When Jesus returns, He will shine so bright under the heavens we will have no doubt He is the light

2 Samuel 22:29"For You are my lamp, O LORD;The LORD shall enlighten my darkness. Jesus is our lamp who enlightens the darkness

Job 34:22 There is no darkness nor shadow of death Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. Even darkness isn't dark enough to hide from the light of Jesus

Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 9:2 The people who walked in darkness Have seen a great light; Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, Upon them a light has shined.prophecy?

Isaiah 42:16 I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; I will lead them in paths they have not known. I will make darkness light before them, And crooked places straight. These things I will do for them, And not forsake them.Jesus lets us see by His light

Isaiah 50:10 Who among you fears the LORD? Who obeys the voice of His Servant? Who walks in darkness And has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD And rely upon his God.Trust in Jesus and He will bring you from darkness into light

Daniel 2:22 He reveals deep and secret things; He knows what is in the darkness, And light dwells with Him.there is nothing in darness He doesn't know

Micah 7:8 [ Israel's Confession and Comfort ] Do not rejoice over me, my enemy; When I fall, I will arise; When I sit in darkness, The LORD will be a light to me.Jesus is our light even when we are in darkest despair

John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.men loved evil more than good and were condemned

John 8:12Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life."Jesus is the light of the world!



John 1:5 *The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not
overcome it.*

Who is this light? Notice /who/ , not what. From the last verse you
see that Christ is life and that this eternal life was the light of
men. So Christ is the light, and He shines in the darkness. Also,
this shining is ongoing as the verb is in the present tense.

What is the darkness? It's not merely a dark room, but you see that it
has a will from the fact that this darkness cannot overcome Christ.

So what? Well, this means that the darkness is trying to overcome the
Lord of Glory. It means that the darkness is a real and prevalent
force that is trying to oppose God. And it means that the darkness cannot,
ever, overcome God.


Now that you have finished the paragraph, what does the context mean?
This logos, that you have a fuzzy image of, is was and always will be.
It is God, and He is life, and nothing can overcome Him.



John 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

John 3:20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

John 12:37 But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:

Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.



From whom may we better expect the light of divine revelation than from him who gave us the light of human reason? And if, when God gave us natural life, that life was in his Son, how readily should we receive the gospel-record, that he hath given us eternal life, and that life too is in his Son!



The manifestation of him to the children of men. It might be objected, If this eternal Word was all in all thus in the creation of the world, whence is it that he has been so little taken notice of and regarded? To this he answers (v. 5), The light shines, but the darkness comprehends it not. Observe,



The discovery of the eternal Word to the lapsed world, even before he was manifested in the flesh: The light shineth in darkness. Light is self-evidencing, and will make itself known; this light, whence the light of men comes, hath shone, and doth shine. [1.] The eternal Word, as God, shines in the darkness of natural conscience. Though men by the fall are become darkness, yet that which may be known of God is manifested in them; see Rom. 1:19, 20. The light of nature is this light shining in darkness. Something of the power of the divine Word, both as creating and as commanding, all mankind have an innate sense of; were it not for this, earth would be a hell, a place of utter darkness; blessed be God, it is not so yet. [2.] The eternal Word, as Mediator, shone in the darkness of the Old-Testament types and figures, and the prophecies and promises which were of the Messiah from the beginning. He that had commanded the light of this world to shine out of darkness was himself long a light shining in darkness; there was a veil upon this light, 2 Co. 3:13.



The disability of the degenerate world to receive this discovery: The darkness comprehended it not; the most of men received the grace of God in these discoveries in vain. [1.] The world of mankind comprehended not the natural light that was in their understandings, but became vain in their imaginations concerning the eternal God and the eternal Word, Rom. 1:21, 28. The darkness of error and sin overpowered and quite eclipsed this light. God spoke once, yea twice, but man perceived it not, Job 33:14. [2.] The Jews, who had the light of the Old Testament, yet comprehended not Christ in it. As there was a veil upon Moses’s face, so there was upon the people’s hearts. In the darkness of the types and shadows the light shone; but such as the darkness of their understandings that they could not see it. It was therefore requisite that Christ should come, both to rectify the errors of the Gentile world and to improve the truths of the Jewish church.