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

Matthew 19:16

Luke 10:25

Hebrews 11:16

They which

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1 John 2:25

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For if you really believed Moses, you would believe me, for it was about me that he wrote.

They answered, "Are you from Galilee too? Study and you will find that no prophet is to appear from Galilee."

Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you do not understand the Scriptures nor the power of God.

Did you never read this passage of Scripture: " 'That stone which the builders rejected Has become the cornerstone;

Abraham answered, 'They have Moses and the prophets; let them listen to them.'

This was the passage of Scripture that he was reading: "Like a sheep he was led away to be slaughtered, And just as a lamb is dumb before its shearer, He does not open his mouth.

The Jews there were more high-minded than those at Thessalonica, and received the message with great eagerness and studied the Scriptures every day, to find out whether it was true.

A great deal, from every point of view. In the first place, the Jews were intrusted with the utterances of God.

Let the message of Christ live in your hearts in all its wealth of wisdom. Teach it to one another and train one another in it with thankfulness, with psalms, hymns, and sacred songs, and sing to God with all your hearts.

But you must stand by what you have learned and been convinced of, and remember from whom you learned it,

So we have the message of the prophets more fully guaranteed. Please pay attention to that message as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

Ye think

A man came up to him and said, "Master, what good deed must I do to obtain eternal life?"

Then an expert in the Law got up to test him and said, "Master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"

But, as it is, their aspirations are for a better, a heavenly country! That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city to receive them.

They which

It is someone else who testifies to me, and I know that the testimony that he gives about me is true.

To this day I have had God's help and I stand here to testify to high and low alike, without adding a thing to what Moses and the prophets declared would happen,

which he promised long ago through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

About this salvation the prophets who prophesied of the blessing that was destined for you made the most careful investigation,

I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, "You must not do that. I am only a fellow-slave of yours and of your brothers who have accepted the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is what inspires prophecy."

And he began with Moses and all the prophets and explained to them the passages all through the Scriptures that referred to himself.

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And what he himself has promised us is eternal life.