What does this scripture mean?

Hi, I have just copied this straight out of my e-sword Bible commentary. It should explain it well for you.

John 1:5

The light shineth in darkness - Darkness, in the Bible, commonly denotes ignorance, guilt, or misery. See Isa9:1-2; Mat4:16; Act26:18; Eph5:8, Eph5:11; Rom13:12. It refers here to a wicked and ignorant people. When it is said that “the light shineth in darkness,” it is meant that the Lord Jesus came to teach an ignorant, benighted, and wicked world. This has always been the case. It was so when he sent his prophets; so during his own ministry; and so in every age since. His efforts to enlighten and save men have been like light struggling to penetrate a thick, dense cloud; and though a few rays may pierce the gloom, yet the great mass is still an impenetrable shade.

Comprehended it not - This word means “admitted” it not, or “received” it not. The word “comprehend,” with us, means to “understand.” This is not the meaning of the original. The darkness did not “receive” or “admit” the rays of light; the shades were so thick that the light could not penetrate them; or, to drop the figure, men were so ignorant, so guilty, so debased, that they did not appreciate the value of his instructions; they despised and rejected him. And so it is still. The great mass of men, sunk in sin, will not receive his teachings, and be enlightened and saved by him. Sin always blinds the mind to the beauty and excellency of the character of the Lord Jesus. It indisposes the mind to receive his instructions, just as “darkness” has no affinity for “light;” and if the one exists, the other must be displaced.

Could you be more specific? Is that from Sanscrit Scripture? Shintoist? Paganist Scripture? Or is it from some other religious scripture?

The word "Scripture" means writing. Just saying "Scripture" indicates that you assume other people will think you know what you are talking about. If you want to at least appear to know what you are talking about be more specific as in "The Scripture of Plato" for instance.

Bob 4:18 (PM)

Go into a dark room and turn on the light. Repeat until you understand.

We understand what light is from the previous verse: "In him was life, and that life was the light of men."

In Jesus, there is this eternal lifeforce of good. So the verse says that either darkness hasnt understood or overcome it. Both are certainly true. It simply means that darkness/evil cannot defeat the light/God/goodness. If you shine a light into a dark basement, the light will always win and light up the area. Similiarly this is true in spiritual terms.

When Jesus, called "The Word" four verses prior to this one, entered the world, He was a Light piercing the darkness. A sinful world (i.e., darkened by sin) in which Light penetrated to give hope to "whosoever would" accept Him as Lord. The world is still in darkness, but because of the Light (Christ) now many have hope of eternal destinies with Him.

The majority of the sinful world didn't (and still doesn't) accept him. Which means the darkness couldn't comprehend (overcome) it. Neither could the sinful world accept Him as Savior, which means it remains in darkness even though He was their way out of it.

"A lamp on a hill cannot be hidden"

"Light has no communion with darkness"

There are a few verses that say the same thing.

What does it mean? well there are a few meanings, but the most pertinent is that for all of us who say we are 'Christian' and still live in sin...we are liars according to the Bible.

For a true Christian is given up their life (dead to the carnal man) to allow the rule of Christ and God's Spirit in them.

"A man cannot have two masters"

So if we claim to be Christ's then our fruit (or evidence) will prove if that is true or not.

This is why, for example, homosexuals are clearly not Christian - their dark behavior is EVIDENCE that God's Spirit (the light) is not in them. (I know, its a hard truth most will never accept). But it is more tough than that when God prophecies that "ALL" have left him - that there is none who have that light.

John 1:5 (New King James Version)

5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend[a] it.

John 1:5 (The Message)

3-5Everything was created through him;

nothing—not one thing!—

came into being without him.

What came into existence was Life,

and the Life was Light to live by.

The Life-Light blazed out of the darkness;

the darkness couldn't put it out.

I mostly go by the NKJV and to me it means that Jesus came into this world...He is God and the Son of God, but many just did NOT see Him for Who He really was and what He had come to do....

John 14:1-11 (The Message)

John 14

The Road

1-4 "Don't let this throw you. You trust God, don't you? Trust me. There is plenty of room for you in my Father's home. If that weren't so, would I have told you that I'm on my way to get a room ready for you? And if I'm on my way to get your room ready, I'll come back and get you so you can live where I live. And you already know the road I'm taking."

5Thomas said, "Master, we have no idea where you're going. How do you expect us to know the road?"

6-7Jesus said, "I am the Road, also the Truth, also the Life. No one gets to the Father apart from me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him. You've even seen him!"

8Philip said, "Master, show us the Father; then we'll be content."

9-10"You've been with me all this time, Philip, and you still don't understand? To see me is to see the Father. So how can you ask, 'Where is the Father?' Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you aren't mere words. I don't just make them up on my own. The Father who resides in me crafts each word into a divine act.

11-14"Believe me: I am in my Father and my Father is in me. If you can't believe that, believe what you see—these works. The person who trusts me will not only do what I'm doing but even greater things, because I, on my way to the Father, am giving you the same work to do that I've been doing. You can count on it. From now on, whatever you request along the lines of who I am and what I am doing, I'll do it. That's how the Father will be seen for who he is in the Son. I mean it. Whatever you request in this way, I'll do

John 3:18-21 (The Message)

16-18"This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.

19-21"This is the crisis we're in: God-light streamed into the world, but men and women everywhere ran for the darkness. They went for the darkness because they were not really interested in pleasing God. Everyone who makes a practice of doing evil, addicted to denial and illusion, hates God-light and won't come near it, fearing a painful exposure. But anyone working and living in truth and reality welcomes God-light so the work can be seen for the God-work it is."

John 3:18-21 (New King James Version)

18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 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. 20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”

Just read the gospel of John and you will understand WHO Jesus really is.......... Go to Biblegateway.com and you can read from different translations of God's Word.....and compare how a particular verse compares in different translations.....as I just did with John 3:18-21

the light jesus as god over comes the darkness the works of the devil and fallen angels

wickedness can not overcome the power of god the light

bad weather parr bad weather... it's too cloudy outside when the writer tries to finish up his holy script. *smiles*

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