John 5:39

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

““You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.”

— WEB

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

— KJV

“Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;”

— ASV

Cross-references

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Matthew 22:29 "But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God."
2 Timothy 3:14-17 "But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them."
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Commentary

Search the scriptures, &c.--"In the Scriptures ye find your charter of eternal life; go search them then, and you will find that I am the Great Burden of their testimony; yet ye will not come to Me for that life eternal which you profess to find there, and of which they tell you I am the appointed Dispenser." (Compare Act 17:11-12). How touching and gracious are these last words! Observe here (1) The honor which Christ gives to the Scriptures, as a record which all have a right and are bound to search--the reverse of which the Church of Rome teaches; (2) The opposite extreme is, resting in the mere Book without the living Christ, to direct the soul to whom is its main use and chiefest glory.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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