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(39) Search the scriptures.--Better, Ye search the Scriptures. The question whether the mood is imperative or indicative, whether we have here a commandment to examine the writings of the Old Testament canon, or a reference to their habit of doing so, is one which has been discussed through the whole history of New Testament exposition, and one on which the opinion of those best qualified to ...
- 39 KJV
39 KJV - John 5:39 You pore over the Scriptures because you...
- 39 Catholic Bible
Search the scriptures: for you think in them to have life...
- 39 ESV
39 ESV - John 5:39 You pore over the Scriptures because you...
- 39 NIV
39 NIV - John 5:39 You pore over the Scriptures because you...
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(39) Search the scriptures. —Better, Ye search the...
- 39 NASB
39 NASB - John 5:39 You pore over the Scriptures because you...
- 39 NLT
Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye...
- John 6
(27) Labour not for the meat which perisheth.--This is one...
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- 2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 64 helpful votes. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
- John 5:39 ESV / 63 helpful votes. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,
- Acts 17:11 ESV / 61 helpful votes. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
- Matthew 22:29 ESV / 37 helpful votes. But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.
Matthew 4:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votesHelpfulNot Helpful. Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”.
John 5:39-42. New King James Version. 39 You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. 40 But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. 41 “I do not receive honor from men. 42 But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you. Read full chapter.
(39) Search the scriptures. —Better, Ye search the Scriptures. The question whether the mood is imperative or indicative, whether we have here a commandment to examine the writings of the Old Testament canon, or a reference to their habit of doing so, is one which has been discussed through the whole history of New Testament exposition, and one on which the opinion of those best qualified to ...
When we use the term “Scriptures,” we are referring to the entire Bible. When Jesus said, “You search the Scriptures” (John 5:39), the New Testament had not yet been written; the “Scriptures,” which in the original language is γραφας (graphas) and literally means “writings,” Jesus is referring to is just the Old Testament.
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John 5:39. ESV You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, NIV You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, NASB You examine the Scriptures because you think that in ...