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34 I give you a new commandment:[a] love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.(A)

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  1. 13:34 I give you a new commandment: this puts Jesus on a par with Yahweh. The commandment itself is not new; cf. Lv 19:18 and the note there.

[a]the light shines in the darkness,(A)
    and the darkness has not overcome it.

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  1. 1:5 The ethical dualism of light and darkness is paralleled in intertestamental literature and in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Overcome: “comprehend” is another possible translation, but cf. Jn 12:35; Wis 7:29–30.

12 the night is advanced, the day is at hand. Let us then throw off the works of darkness [and] put on the armor of light;(A)

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