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D&C 39:2 · John 1:5

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 39:2
"The light and the life of the world; a light which shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehendeth it not;"
New Testament John 1:5
"And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."

Shared words: shineth in darkness and the darkness

The divergence is tense: the gospel's 'comprehended' is past, the revelation's 'comprehendeth' present. The revelation prefixes the title 'The light and the life of the world', which the gospel verse does not carry; that title stands at seven frozen verses, including 3 Nephi 9:18, 3 Nephi 11:11, and Mosiah 16:9. D&C 34:2 carries the same compound sentence with a comma where section 39 has a semicolon — disclosed, not separately paired. The parallel at D&C 6:21 is registered on oliver-cowdery.md (w1-dc6-light-darkness-john).