John 5:39

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John 5:39

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John 5:39

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

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Ye think

They which

General references

Deuteronomy 17:19

1 John 2:25

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For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me.

“You aren’t from Galilee too, are you?” they replied. “Investigate and you will see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”

“Imprint these words of mine on your hearts and minds, bind them as a sign on your hands, and let them be a symbol on your foreheads.

When he is seated on his royal throne, he is to write a copy of this instruction for himself on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.

This book of instruction must not depart from your mouth; you are to recite it day and night so that you may carefully observe everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in whatever you do.

Instead, his delight is in the Lord’s instruction,
and he meditates on it day and night.

I have treasured Your word in my heart
so that I may not sin against You.

For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light,
and corrective discipline is the way to life.

Listen to instruction and be wise;
don’t ignore it.

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.

Search and read the scroll of the Lord:
Not one of them will be missing,
none will be lacking its mate,
because He has ordered it by my mouth,
and He will gather them by His Spirit.

The wise will be put to shame;
they will be dismayed and snared.
They have rejected the word of the Lord,
so what wisdom do they really have?

Jesus answered them, “You are deceived, because you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God.

Haven’t you read this Scripture:

The

stone that the builders rejected

has become the cornerstone.

“But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.’

Now the Scripture passage he was reading was this:

He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,
and as a lamb is silent before its shearer,
so He does not open His mouth.

The people here were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, since they welcomed the message with eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Considerable in every way. First, they were entrusted with the spoken words of God.

Let the message about the Messiah dwell richly among you, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, and singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, with gratitude in your hearts to God.

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed. You know those who taught you,

So we have the prophetic word strongly confirmed. You will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dismal place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

Ye think

For they are not meaningless words to you but they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

You reveal the path of life to me;
in Your presence is abundant joy;
in Your right hand are eternal pleasures.

He asked You for life, and You gave it to him—
length of days forever and ever.

for with You is life’s fountain.
In Your light we will see light.

It is like the dew of Hermon
falling on the mountains of Zion.
For there the Lord has appointed the blessing—
life forevermore.

Many of those who sleep in the dust
of the earth will awake,
some to eternal life,
and some to shame and eternal contempt.

Just then someone came up and asked Him, “Teacher, what good must I do to have eternal life?”

Just then an expert in the law stood up to test Him, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

But they now desire a better place—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

They which

There is Another who testifies about Me, and I know that the testimony He gives about Me is valid.

Philip found Nathanael

and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law (and so did the prophets): Jesus the son of Joseph, from Nazareth!”

“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him.

To this very day, I have obtained help that comes from God, and I stand and testify to both small and great, saying nothing else than what the prophets and Moses said would take place—

which He promised long ago through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures—

Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that would come to you searched and carefully investigated.

Then I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow slave with you and your brothers who have the testimony about Jesus. Worship God, because the testimony about Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

Then beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He interpreted for them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures.

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It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to observe all the words of this instruction, and to do these statutes.

And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.