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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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A Statement, Not a Command
While often read as a command, most commentators note that Jesus is likely making an observation: "You search the Scriptures..." He is not necessarily criticizing their diligence but highlighting the tragic irony that their intense study of the text was failing to lead them to its central subject.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Search the scriptures. The word translated search here means to search diligently or anxiously. It is applied t…
Ye search (εραυνατε). Proper spelling as the papyri show rather than ερευνατε, the old form (from ερευνα, search) as in 7:52. The …
19th Century
Anglican
Search the scriptures.—Better, You search the Scriptures. The question of whether the mood is imperative or indicative—wh…
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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…
Jesus’ final witness is the Scriptures. After the destruction of the temple of Solomon in 586 B. C., the Jewish scholars of the Exile substituted t…
16th Century
Protestant
Search the Scriptures. We have said that the statement which Christ previously made — that He has the Father as a witness in heaven — refe…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Search the Scriptures The writings of Moses, and the prophets, which were of divine inspiration and authority, and a…
The Jews considered that eternal life was revealed to them in their Scriptures, and that they had it, because they had the word of God in their han…
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 …
