John 12:50

And I know that his commandment is life eternal. What things I speak therefore, as the Father has said to me, so I speak.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.

In Context

49For I have not spoken of myself: but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment what I should say, and what I should speak.

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Cross References

John 6:68Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life;

John 20:31but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life through his name.

1 John 2:25And this is the promise which he has promised us, even eternal life.

1 John 5:11And this is the testimony, that God has given us eternal life: and this life is in his Son.

Matthew Henry on John 12:45-50

Christ's Last Discourse with the Jews. 44 Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. 45 And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me. 46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. 47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the… Read the whole commentary →

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