John 1:10
New International Version
He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.

New Living Translation
He came into the very world he created, but the world didn’t recognize him.

English Standard Version
He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.

Berean Standard Bible
He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him.

Berean Literal Bible
He was in the world, and the world came into being through Him, and the world did not know Him.

King James Bible
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

New King James Version
He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.

New American Standard Bible
He was in the world, and the world came into being through Him, and yet the world did not know Him.

NASB 1995
He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.

NASB 1977
He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.

Legacy Standard Bible
He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.

Amplified Bible
He (Christ) was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him.

Christian Standard Bible
He was in the world, and the world was created through him, and yet the world did not recognize him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He was in the world, and the world was created through Him, yet the world did not recognize Him.

American Standard Version
He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world knew him not.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He was in the world, and the world existed by his hand, and the world knew him not.

Contemporary English Version
The Word was in the world, but no one knew him, though God had made the world with his Word.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

English Revised Version
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He was in the world, and the world came into existence through him. Yet, the world didn't recognize him.

Good News Translation
The Word was in the world, and though God made the world through him, yet the world did not recognize him.

International Standard Version
He was in the world, and the world was made through him. Yet the world did not recognize him.

Literal Standard Version
He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him:

Majority Standard Bible
He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him.

New American Bible
He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, but the world did not know him.

NET Bible
He was in the world, and the world was created by him, but the world did not recognize him.

New Revised Standard Version
He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him.

New Heart English Bible
He was in the world, and the world was made through him, but the world did not recognize him.

Webster's Bible Translation
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

Weymouth New Testament
He was in the world, and the world came into existence through Him, and the world did not recognize Him.

World English Bible
He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.

Young's Literal Translation
in the world he was, and the world through him was made, and the world did not know him:

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Witness of John
9The true Light who gives light to every man was coming into the world. 10He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him. 11He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.…

Cross References
Isaiah 53:3
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

John 1:3
Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made.

John 1:11
He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.

1 Corinthians 8:6
yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.

Colossians 1:16
For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.

Hebrews 1:2
But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe.


Treasury of Scripture

He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

was in.

John 1:18
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

John 5:17
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.

Genesis 11:6-9
And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do…

and the world was.

John 1:3
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Jeremiah 10:11,12
Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens…

Hebrews 1:2
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

knew.

John 1:5
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

John 17:25
O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

Matthew 11:27
All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.

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(10) In the world.--This manifestation in the flesh recalls the pre-incarnate existence during the whole history of the world, and the creative act itself. (Comp. John 1:2-3, Note). The two facts are the constant presence of the true Light, and the creation of the world by Him. The world, then, in its highest creature man, with spiritual power for seeing the true Light, ought to have recognised Him. Spirit ought to have felt and known His presence. In this would have been the exercise of its true power and its highest good. But the world was sense-bound, and lost its spiritual perception, and "knew Him not." This verse brings back again the thought of John 1:3-5, to prepare for the deeper gloom which follows.

Verses 10, 11. -

(c) The twofold effect of the pre-Incarnation activity in the elected nation and individuals. The highest expression of this truth was seen in the unique "coming" of which the evangelist had been the spectator and witness; but the words cannot be limited to it - they stretch back to the beginning of the creation of the world and on to the final consummation. They explain or divide the solemn theme of the previous announcement into two related proofs of the fact that the Light which illumines every man shineth in darkness, and that the darkness apprehendeth it not. Verse 10. - Of him who was evermore coming into the world, it is said, In the world he was, and the world was made (came into being) through him, and the world recognized him not. The κόσμος is a term specially used by St. John to denote the ordered whole of the universe, viewed apart from God (see Introduction). Sometimes this is emphasized by the pronoun, "This world," when it is contrasted with the higher and heavenly "order" to which the Lord's personality belonged, both before and after this manifestation in the flesh. From being thus the scene of ordered existence apart from God, it rapidly moves into the organized resistance to the will of God, and therefore it often denotes humanity taken as a whole apart from God and grace. It may be the object of the Divine love and compassion (John 3:16), while the redemption and deliverance of the world from sin is the great end of the ministry and work of Jesus (ver. 29); but throughout this gospel "the world" is the synonym of the adverse power and order of humanity, until it is illumined, regenerated, by the Spirit of God. The world here signifies humanity and its dwelling place, considered apart from the changes wrought in any part of it by grace. The three assertions concerning the world drop the imagery of light and life, and by their emphatic concatenation, without the assistance of a Greek particle, tell the tragic story of human departure from God. Thus only can the mystery of the previous verses be explained. At the very forefront of the argument of the Gospel is put a statement which concedes the strange perplexity of the rejection of the incarnate Logos. Not only does the entire narrative illustrate the awful fact, strange and inconceivable as such an idea appears when baldly stated, but the author generalizes the antipathy between the Logos and the world into a more comprehensive, damning, and yet undeniable, proposition. From the beginning, though the world came into being through the Logos, though he was in the world, in every atom of matter, in every vibration of force, in every energy of life, yet the world, notwithstanding all its power of recognizing the fact, yet the world, as concentrated in an antagonistic humanity, did not come to know him fully (ἔγνω). This is the lesson we learn from all the melancholy and tragic perversions of his glorious perfections which every heathenism and every cultus, and even every philosophy, has perpetrated. St. Paul says precisely the same thing: "The world by wisdom knew not God" (see also Romans 1:19-22, which might be taken as an inspired commentary on the whole passage). And the awful statement is still, with reference to the majority of men, true, that "the world knoweth not God, neither the Father, nor the Word, nor the Holy Ghost."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
He was
ἦν (ēn)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

the
τῷ (tō)
Article - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

world,
κόσμῳ (kosmō)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2889: Probably from the base of komizo; orderly arrangement, i.e. Decoration; by implication, the world (morally).

and [though]
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

the
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

world
κόσμος (kosmos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2889: Probably from the base of komizo; orderly arrangement, i.e. Decoration; by implication, the world (morally).

was made
ἐγένετο (egeneto)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1096: A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude.

through
δι’ (di’)
Preposition
Strong's 1223: A primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through.

Him,
αὐτοῦ (autou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

the
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

world
κόσμος (kosmos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2889: Probably from the base of komizo; orderly arrangement, i.e. Decoration; by implication, the world (morally).

{did} not
οὐκ (ouk)
Adverb
Strong's 3756: No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not.

recognize
ἔγνω (egnō)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1097: A prolonged form of a primary verb; to 'know' in a great variety of applications and with many implications.

Him.
αὐτὸν (auton)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.


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