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You don`t have his word living in you; for whom he sent, him you don`t believe.
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The Word: In the Head or Heart?
Commentators explain that Jesus's audience possessed the Scriptures but didn't have God's word "abiding" in them. It was an external text they studied, not an internal, life-shaping power. As one scholar notes, they "locked it up...in ark and synagogue, but it found no home in their innermost life." This serves as a warning that one can be a student of the Bible's letter but miss its life-giving Spirit if it doesn't transform the heart.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
His word abiding in you. His law does not abide in you—that is, you do not regard or obey it. This was the third thing that he ch…
And (κα). "And yet" as in 1:10 and 5:40 below.
His word abiding in you (τον λογον αυτου εν υμιν μενοντα). …
19th Century
Anglican
Abiding in you.—This striking thought of the word taking up its dwelling in the mind, and forming the mind in which it dwells, is …
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Baptist
They were great Bible-readers, great students of the letter, but they would not come to Christ; and therefore the Scriptures themselves became a to…
The fourth witness is that of the Father. The allusion seems somewhat obscure, especially since Jesus disclaimed any visible or audible communicati…
16th Century
Protestant
And you have not his word abiding in you. This is the true way of profiting, when the word of God takes root in us, so that, being impress…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And you have not his word abiding in you Which some understand of Christ himself, the Logos, or word: who, though he…
Our Lord returns to his declaration of the entire agreement between the Father and the Son, and declared himself the Son of God. He had higher test…
13th Century
Catholic
Having taught about the life-giving power of the Son, Jesus now confirms it. First, he confirms what he had said about the excellence of …
