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

Luke 24:27

General references

1 John 2:25

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For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he wrote of me.

They answered and said to him, Art thou too from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet ariseth from Galilee.

Jesus answered and said to them, Ye err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

And have ye not read this scripture: "The stone which the builders rejected, the same hath become the cornerstone;

But Abraham saith, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

And the passage of the scripture which he was reading was this: "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so he openeth not his mouth.

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so.

Great, every way. In the first place, because they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to God;

But do thou continue in the things which thou didst learn and wast assured of, knowing from what teachers thou didst learn them,

And we have more sure the prophetic word, to which ye do well in taking heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the daystar arise in your hearts;

Ye think

And lo! one came to him and said, Teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have everlasting life?

And lo! a certain lawyer stood up to try him, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit everlasting life?

but now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he prepared for them a city.

They which

There is another who beareth witness of me; and ye know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.

Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith to him, We have found him of whom Moses in the Law, and the Prophets wrote, Jesus, the son of Joseph, who is of Nazareth.

Having, however, obtained help from God, I continue to this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing except those things which the Prophets and Moses said were to come to pass;

which he had promised before by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures,

Concerning which salvation the prophets sought earnestly and searched earnestly, who prophesied of the grace that was to come to you;

And I fell at his feet to worship him; and he saith to me, See thou do it not; I am a fellowservant of thee, and of thy brethren who maintain the testimony to Jesus; worship God. For the testimony to Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

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And this is the promise which he himself promised us, even the life everlasting.