John 1:2-9

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].

6There came a man commissioned and sent from God, whose name was John.

7This man came as a witness, to testify about the Light, so that all might believe [in Christ, the Light] through him.

8John was not the Light, but came to testify about the Light.

9There it was—the true Light [the genuine, perfect, steadfast Light] which, coming into the world, enlightens everyone.