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Selected Verse: John 5:38 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Joh 5:38 |
King James |
And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| not his word abiding in you--passing now from the Witness to the testimony borne by Him in "the lively oracles" (Act 7:38): both were alike strangers to their breasts, as was evidenced by their rejecting Him to whom all that witness was borne. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
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 charged them with.
1. They had not obeyed the command of God.
2. They had not regarded his manifestations, either in the times of the old dispensation, or now through the Messiah.
3. They did not yield to what he had said in the revelation of the Old Testament.
For whom he hath sent - God had foretold that the Messiah would come. He had now given evidence that Jesus was he; but now they rejected him, and this was proof that they did not regard the word of God. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
His word
Emphatic, commencing the sentence. Compare Joh 17:6 sqq.; Jo1 1:10; Jo1 2:14. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Ye have not his word - All who believe have the word of the Father (the same with the word of the Son) abiding in them, that is, deeply ingrafted in their hearts. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Ye have not his word abiding in you - Though ye believe the Scriptures to be of God, yet ye do not let them take hold of your hearts - his word is in your mouth, but not in your mind. What a miserable lot! to read the Scriptures as the true sayings of God, and yet to get no salvation from them! Thy word, says David, (Psa 119:11), have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee. This, these Jews had not done. Reader, hast thou? |
38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.
10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.