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 were believing Moses, ye would believe Me; for he wrote concerning Me.

They answered, and said to him, "Are you also of Galilee? Search, and see that out of Galilee arises no prophet."

But Jesus, answering, said to them, "Ye deceive yourselves, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God;

Did ye never read the Scripture, "The stone which the builders rejected, the same became the head of a corner;

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

Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this: "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and, as a lamb dumb before its shearer, so He openeth not His mouth.

And these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so.

Much every way: first, that 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, singing with grace in your hearts, to God.

But do you abide in the, things which you learned and were assured of; knowing from whom you learned them;

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

Ye think

And, behold, one, having come near, said to Him, "Teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?"

And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, tempting Him, saying, "Teacher, by doing what shall I inherit eternal life?"

But now they long for a better country, that is, a heavenly one; wherefore, God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for He prepared for them a city.

They which

There is Another Who testifieth concerning Me; and I know that the testimony which He testifieth concerning Me is true.

Philip finds Nathanael, and says to him, "We have found Him of Whom Moses in the law and the prophets wrote??esus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."

Having, therefore, obtained help from God, I have stood to this day, testifying both to small and great, saying nothing, except those things which both the prophets and Moses said would come to pass;

which He promised before through His prophets in the holy Scriptures,

concerning which salvation the prophets earnestly sought and diligently searched, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you;

And I fell down before his feet to worship him. And he says to me, "See that you do it not: I am a fellow-servant of you and of your brethren who hold the testimony of Jesus; worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."

And, beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, He thoroughly interpreted to them, in all the Scriptures, the things concerning Himself.

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And this is the promise which He Himself promised us, the eternal life.