John 5:39

I know that you read God’s book all the time, and you think that if you do that you will find out how to live with God for ever. I want you to know that those words in God’s book, they tell you all about me.

Plain English Version

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

38You see, God sent me to you, but you don’t believe me. This shows that you don’t really want to hear God’s message.

40And if people come to me, then they can live with God for ever. But you don’t want to come to me.

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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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