“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
John 5:39 in context
John 5:36–42
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But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John; for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.
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The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.
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You don’t have his word living in you, because you don’t believe him whom he sent.
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“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
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Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
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I don’t receive glory from men.
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But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves.
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