John 5:39

You search the scriptures, because you think that you find in them immortal life; and, though it is those scriptures that bear testimony to me,

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In The King James Version

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

In Context

38and you have not taken his message home to your hearts, because you do not believe him whom he sent as his messenger.

40you refuse to come to me to have life.

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Cross References

Joshua 1:8This book of the law you should never cease to have on your lips. You must pore over it day and night, that you may be mindful to carry out all that is written in it, for so will you make your way prosperous, so will you succeed.

Psalms 16:11You will show me the path that leads to life, to that fulness of joy which is in your presence, and the pleasures dispensed by your hand evermore.

Psalms 36:9For with you is the fountain of life, in the light that is yours we see light.

Psalms 119:97O how I love your law! All the day long I muse on it.

Matthew Henry on John 5:32-47

Christ Proves His Divine Mission; Infidelity of the Jews Reproved. 31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. 32 There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true. 33 Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth. 34 But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved. 35 He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. 36 But I have greater witness than that… Read the whole commentary →

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