Neither does a person light an [olive oil] lamp and place it under a bushel-sized container, but on a stand where it can illuminate everything in the house.
John 1:5 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) And [His] light continued to shine, [even] in the darkness [of the world], and that darkness did not overcome Him [or, did not fully understand Him]. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the Light shines on in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it [put it out or absorbed it or appropriated it, and is unreceptive to it]. American Standard Version (1901) And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not. Common English Bible The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness doesn’t extinguish the light. Catholic Public Domain Version And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. |
Neither does a person light an [olive oil] lamp and place it under a bushel-sized container, but on a stand where it can illuminate everything in the house.
[Actually] He was in the world [already], for the world came into being through Him, but the world did not acknowledge Him.
to open their eyes [to the truth] so they will turn from darkness to light and from the power [i.e., the influence] of Satan to God. [Then] they can receive the forgiveness of sins and the inheritance [of never ending life], along with [all] those who are set apart [for God] by trusting in Me.’
And since these people refused to acknowledge God, He has allowed [or, abandoned] them to have degraded minds and to practice those things which they should not do.
Now the natural person [Note: Since this person is contrasted with the spiritual person of verse 15, it is taken here to mean the person without the Holy Spirit] does not receive the things [i.e., truths] revealed by the Holy Spirit of God, because they are [considered] foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them because they must be discerned by using spiritual judgment [i.e., judgment aided by the Holy Spirit].