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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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Albert Barnes
On John 5:38
18th Century
Theologian
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…
AT Robertson
On John 5:38
And (κα). "And yet" as in 1:10 and 5:40 below.
His word abiding in you (τον λογον αυτου εν υμιν μενοντα). …
Charles Ellicott
On John 5:38
19th Century
Bishop
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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Charles Spurgeon
On John 5:32–40
19th Century
Preacher
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…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On John 5:38
The fourth witness is that of the Father. The allusion seems somewhat obscure, especially since Jesus disclaimed any visible or audible communicati…
John Calvin
On John 5:38
16th Century
Theologian
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…
John Gill
On John 5:38
17th Century
Pastor
And you have not his word abiding in you
Which some understand of Christ himself, the Logos, or word: who, though he…
Matthew Henry
On John 5:30–38
17th Century
Minister
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…