Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on John 5:39

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39-42. Search the scriptures, c.—"In the Scriptures ye find your charter of eternal life go search them then, and you will find that I am the Great Burden of their testimony; yet ye will not come to Me for that life eternal which you profess to find there, and of which they tell you I am the appointed Dispenser." (Compare Acts 17:11 ; Acts 17:12 ). How touching and gracious are these last words! Observe here (1) The honor which Christ gives to the Scriptures, as a record which all have a right and are bound to search—the reverse of which the Church of Rome teaches; (2) The opposite extreme is, resting in the mere Book without the living Christ, to direct the soul to whom is its main use and chiefest glory. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-41" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-jhn-5-005

절 (explains)

bible-text/jhn-5-39

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological