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Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
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What "Never Die" Really Means
When Jesus says believers "shall never die," commentators clarify He is not promising an escape from physical death. Instead, He uses powerful language (a "strong double negative" in the original Greek) to promise victory over eternal, spiritual death. For the believer, physical death is reframed as a mere "passage" or "emancipation" into everlasting life with Christ.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Whoever lives. He had just spoken of the prospects of the pious dead. He now says that the same prospects are before the living who have l…
Shall never die (ου μη αποθανη εις τον αιωνα). Strong double negative ου μη with second aorist active subjunctive of αποθνησκω aga…
19th Century
Anglican
And whosoever liveth and believeth in me—This is to be understood of the physical life corresponding to “though he has died” from the last…
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Baptist
And the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believ…
Martha interpreted Jesus’ promise (v.23) that her brother would rise again in terms of the expectation of a general resurrection. She may have take…
16th Century
Protestant
And whoever lives and believes in me. This is the exposition of the second clause, how Christ is the life; and he is so, because …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And whoever lives and believes in me . Whoever will be found alive at Christ's second coming, and is a believer in h…
Here was a house where the fear of God was, and on which his blessing rested; yet it was made a house of mourning. Grace will keep sorrow from the …
13th Century
Catholic
1. The Evangelist, after telling us that Lazarus was to be raised, now describes the events surrounding it. He does so in three parts:
