John 1:1-5

1In the beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself.

2He was [continually existing] in the beginning [co-eternally] with God.

3All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him not even one thing was made that has come into being.

4In Him was life [and the power to bestow life], and the life was the Light of men.

5The 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].