Get a everybody, welcome to another Bible study with Thomas Aquinas. I'm not Thomas Aquinas.

I'm Matt Brad, but we will be reading from his commentary on John's Gospel.

So we'll get to that in a bit. Good to have you here. If you like these videos, you could

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Okay, let's begin with the sign of the cross. And I also want to say to our beautiful

Protestants who are also tuning in that you don't have to be afraid of the sign of the

cross, even though it's often associated with Catholics. All it is is we're remembering

the salvation Christ won for us, right, through his death and resurrection. And so we trace

on our bodies the sign of the cross. So you're welcome to do that with me. And we'll just

offer that as a little prayer as we begin in the name of the Father and of the Son and

of the Holy Spirit. Amen. All right, here's what I want to look at today. This verse here,

it's quite, let's make that a little bigger. It's quite short. This is from the, obviously,

very beginning of John's God. What I was just covering up my face. So there you go.

There you go. Now you can just see Harold. Harold's the name of my beard. You're welcome.

Let's see. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God.

He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him and without him was

not anything made. That was made in him was life. And the life was the light of men. So

this is kind of what we want to start. This is what I want to drill drill drill down on in

this particular Bible study, just this line here, right? The light shines in the darkness

and the darkness has not overcommit. That's what we want to look at. All right. So let's

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