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Life is in a Person, Not a Book
Commentators emphasize the tragic irony that the religious leaders searched the Scriptures for life but rejected the very person to whom the Scriptures pointed. Jesus makes it clear that eternal life is not found in a book or a religious system, but in a personal relationship with Him. As A.T. Robertson notes, this rejection of the Messiah by the Messianic people is a central tragedy.
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Albert Barnes
On John 5:40
18th Century
Theologian
And you will not come, etc. Though the Old Testament bears evidence that I am the Messiah; though you professedly search it to learn the w…
AT Robertson
On John 5:40
And ye will not come to me (κα ου θελετε ελθειν προς με). "And yet" (κα) as often in John. "This is the tragedy of the rejection o…
Charles Ellicott
On John 5:40
19th Century
Bishop
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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 5:40
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…
John Calvin
On John 5:40
16th Century
Theologian
And you will not come to me. He again reproaches them that it is nothing but their own malice that hinders them from becoming partakers of…
John Gill
On John 5:40
17th Century
Pastor
And you will not come to me
Which is to be understood, not of a corporeal coming to him; for many of the Jews did co…
Matthew Henry
On John 5:39–44
17th Century
Minister
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…