[a]This was [b]that true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

10 [c]He was in the world, and the world was (A)made by him: and the world knew him not.

11 He came [d]unto his own, and his own received him not.

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Footnotes

  1. John 1:9 When as the Son of God saw, that man did not acknowledge him by his works, although they were endued with understanding (which he had given to them all) he exhibited himself unto his people to be seen of them with their corporal eyes: yet neither so did they acknowledge him, nor receive him.
  2. John 1:9 Who only and properly deserveth to be called the light, for he shineth of himself and borroweth light of none.
  3. John 1:10 That person of the Word, was made manifest even at that time when the world was made.
  4. John 1:11 The Word showed himself again, when he came in the flesh.

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