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John 5:39
Searche the Scriptures: for in them ye thinke to haue eternall life, and they are they which testifie of me.
John 5:39 · Geneva Bible
John 5:39 in other translations
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,
“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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In context
36 But I haue greater witnesse then the witnesse of Iohn: for the workes which the Father hath giuen me to finish, the same workes that I doe, beare witnesse of me, that the Father sent me.
37 And the Father himselfe, which hath sent me, beareth witnesse of me. Ye haue not heard his voyce at any time, neither haue ye seene his shape.
38 And his worde haue you not abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye beleeued not.
39 Searche the Scriptures: for in them ye thinke to haue eternall life, and they are they which testifie of me.
40 But ye will not come to me, that ye might haue life.
41 I receiue not the prayse of men.
42 But I know you, that ye haue not the loue of God in you.
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