Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 5:39
Search the Scriptures — A plain command to all men. In them ye are assured ye have eternal life — Ye know they show you the way to eternal life. And these very Scriptures testify of me.
Search the Scriptures — A plain command to all men. In them ye are assured ye have eternal life — Ye know they show you the way to eternal life. And these very Scriptures testify of me.
Verse 39. _SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES_] ερευνατε τας γραφας. This should be translated, not in the _imperative_, but in the _indicative_ mood-thus, _Ye search the Scriptures diligently_. That these words a...
SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES - The word translated “search” here means to “search diligently” or “search anxiously.” It was applied to miners, who search for precious metals - who look anxiously for the “bed...
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The Healing of the Impotent Man. (John 5:1 .)_ 2. The Opposition of the Jews. (John 5:10 .) 3. His Unity with the Father. (John 5:19 .) 4. The Present Hour. Believers Delivered from...
WITNESS. The subject is introduced abruptly, but rises naturally out of the circumstances. The claims made, if less than the author represents them, were such as to raise the question of authority. By...
SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES. Or rather, "ye search the Scriptures" for eternal life. Yet those Scriptures were full of the testimony of Christ. Of him had all the prophets borne witness. He of whom the Scr...
And the Father who sent me has home witness about me. You have never heard his voice, nor have you ever seen his form. You do not have his word dwelling in you, because you do not believe in the One w...
MAN'S HELPLESSNESS AND CHRIST'S POWER (John 5:1-9)...
SEARCH. Greek. _ereunao =_ to search as. lion or hound tracks by the scent. Not the same word as in Acts 17:11. Here the Verb may be the imperative or indicative mood; but the indicative never commenc...
_Search the Scriptures_ It will never be settled beyond dispute whether the verb here is _imperative_or _indicative_. As far as the Greek shews it may be either, -search," or -ye search," and both mak...
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
_The Father's testimony is evident_, (a) _in the works assigned to Me_, (b) _in the revelation which ye do not receive_....
The connexion of thought in the next few verses is very difficult to catch, and cannot be affirmed with certainty. This is often the case in S. John's writings. A number of simple sentences follow one...
ἘΡΑΥΝΑ͂ΤΕ Τ. ΓΡ. It will never be settled beyond dispute whether the verb here is _imperative_ or _indicative_. As far as the Greek shews, it may be either, ‘search,’ or ‘ye search,’ and both make sen...
37–40. The connexion of thought in the next few verses is very difficult to catch, and cannot be affirmed with certainty. This is often the case in S. John’s writings. A number of simple sentences fol...
36–40. _The Father’s testimony is evident_, (a) _in the works assigned to Me_, (b) _in the revelation which ye do not receive_....
THE UNBELIEF OF THE JEWS...
THE DISCOURSE ON THE SON AS THE SOURCE OF LIFE...
Ver 31. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. 32. There is another that bears witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true. 33. You sent to John, and he b...
_A WITNESS TO JESUS -- JOHN 5:31-47:_ Jesus called the attention of the Jews to the fact that God the Father was His witness. John was a great witness but the things that the Father had given Him to d...
ΈΡΑΥΝΆΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΈΡΑΥΝΆΩ (G2045) исследовать, расследовать. Привычный _praes._ указывает на их давнюю привычку исследовать Писание. Форма могла бы быть _imper._, но данный контекст требу...
DISCOURSE: 1630 CHRIST’S APPEAL TO THE SCRIPTURES John 5:39. _Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me_. WHEN our Lord professed himself...
SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES;— Because the Jews were exceedingly averse to acknowledge the Lord Jesus for their Messiah, not withstanding that the evidences of his divine mission were so unexceptionable; he...
THE WITNESS OF THE SCRIPTURES _Text 5:39-47_ 39 Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me; 40 and ye will not come...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 5:31-47 We begin with our usual Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— "If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true" (John 5:31). Every comm...
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES, [ ereunate (G2045)] - or 'Ye search.' Since either sense may be adopt...
31 The usual rendering, "If I bear witness of Myself My witness is not true", _ is not true_! The Lord Himself insisted, on another occasion, that His testimony concerning Himself _ was _ true. "And i...
5:39 search (f-2) Or 'Search.' Not command, but appeal. witness (g-21) Or 'are the witness-bearers.'...
BETHESDA. CHRIST AND THE SABBATH 1-47. A miracle at the Pool of Bethesda on the Sabbath Day, and a controversy arising therefrom. This miracle may be regarded as a parable illustrating the deadly effe...
SEARCH] rather, 'Ye search' (RV)....
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 5 JESUS CURES A SICK MAN 5:1-15 V1 After this, Jesus went to *Jerusalem for another *Jewish *festival. V2 There was a p...
SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES. — Better, _Ye search the Scriptures._ The question whether the mood is imperative or indicative, whether we have here a commandment to examine the writings of the Old Testament...
CHAPTER 13 JESUS LIFE-GIVER AND JUDGE. “The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole. And for this cause did the Jews persecute Jesus, because He did these things o...
WILLFUL REJECTION OF TRUTH CONDEMNED John 5:39-47 Our Lord was accused by the Jews of Sabbath breaking. There were many grounds on which He might have claimed exoneration, but He forbore to use them....
It was at this time that the conflict between Christ and His enemies, which culminated in His Cross began. A miracle wrought on the Sabbath gave rise to this first outbreak. Throughout this chapter we...
Or, You search the Scriptures: ( scrutamini; Greek: ereunate). It is not a command for all to read the Scriptures; but a reproach to the Pharisees, that reading the Scriptures as they did, and thinkin...
CHAPTER 13 THE POOL OF BETHESDA John 5:1-47. _“After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.”_ You always find the phraseology in the Bible, _“Go up to Jerusalem.”...
FIRST SECTION: 5:1-47. FIRST OUTBREAK OF HATRED IN JUDEA. 1. The miracle, occasion of the conflict: John 5:1-16; John 2. The discourse of Jesus, commentary and defense of the miracle: John 5:17-47....
“ _And his word ye have not abiding in you, for ye believe not him whom he hath sent._ 39. _Ye search the Scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear...
II. THE TESTIMONY OF THE FATHER, IN SUPPORT OF THAT WHICH THE SON RENDERS TO HIMSELF: JOHN 5:31-40. Jesus had just ascribed to Himself marvelous works. Such declarations might provoke an objection amo...
SECOND PART: THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNBELIEF IN ISRAEL. 5:1- 12:50. UP to this point, decided faith and unbelief have been only exceptional phenomena; the masses have remained in a state of passive indiff...
II. THE DISCOURSE OF JESUS: JOHN 5:17-47. In this discourse which is designed to vindicate the act which He has just performed, the three following thoughts are developed: 1. Jesus justifies His work...
The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole. (16) And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
_THE DEVOTIONAL STUDY OF SCRIPTURE_ ‘They are they which testify of Me.’ John 5:39 By the devotional study of Scripture I understand such a study, or rather, I may say, such ‘a use’ of God’s Word a...
_THE TESTIMONY OF THE SCRIPTURES_ ‘Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of Me.’ John 5:39 There are four great fundamental principles wh...
39._Search the Scriptures. _We have said that the statement which Christ formerly made — that he has the Father for a witness in heaven — refers to Moses and the Prophets. Now follows a clearer explan...
chapter 5 contrasts the quickening power of Christ, the power and the right of giving life to the dead, with the powerlessness of legal ordinances. They required strength in the person that was to pro...
SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES,.... The writings of Moses, and the prophets, which were of divine inspiration and authority, and are often appealed unto by Christ, and his apostles, for the truth of what they...
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. Ver. 39. _Search the Scriptures_] _Audite saeculares, comparate vobis Biblia, animae pharmaca,...
_Search the Scriptures_ Because the Jews were exceedingly averse to acknowledge Jesus for their Messiah, notwithstanding that the evidences of his mission were so unexceptionable, he appeals, lastly,...
THE SCRIPTURES; the Old Testament, by following which they hoped for heaven; and yet those scriptures showed that he was the Messiah, and that they must believe in him, or perish....
SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES; FOR IN THEM YE THINK YE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE; AND THEY ARE THEY WHICH TESTIFY OF ME....
The authority of the Scriptures:...
AGAIN IN JERUSALEM: THE POOL OF BETHESDA (vs.1-15) Once more we find the Lord Jesus visiting Jerusalem, and as in Chapter 2:13 the feast is called "the Jews' Passover" rather than the Passover of Jeh...
39-44 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 hands. Jesus urged them to search those Scripture...
SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES; the words may be read either imperatively (as our translation readeth them) or indicatively, You do search the Scriptures; that is, of the Old Testament, for the books of the Ne...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV Wherefore also John does appropriately relate that the Lord said to the Jews: "Ye search the Scriptures, in which ye think ye have eternal life; these are they which...
John 5:39 search G2045 (G5719) Scriptures G1124 for G3754 in G1722 them G846 you G5210 think G1380 ...
“You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form, and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe him whom he has sent. You search the Scriptures, because you think...
WITNESSES TO THE GENUINENESS OF HIS AUTHORITY (JOHN 5:31). Jesus now goes on to describe the witnesses which support Him: · He is the One to Whom the Father has borne witness (John 5:37) · His very...
John 5:39. YE SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES. The link connecting this verse with the last is the mention of God's ‘word.' We have seen that our Lord had referred in a marked though not an exclusive manner to...
The performance of the miracle of healing on the sabbath had roused the active opposition of the Jews to Jesus, and that again had led to the great declaration contained in John 5:17, in which Jesus a...
YE SEARCH (εραυνατε). Proper spelling as the papyri show rather than ερευνατε, the old form (from ερευνα, search) as in John 7:52. The form here can be either present active indicative second person...
John 5:39 Searching Scripture and finding Christ I. It is evident that the failure of many men to find Christ is not from any deficiency in the means of discovering Him. It is this which our Lord so...
John 5:24. _Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life,_ If we truly believe the word of Christ, and trust in him who sent his S...
CONTENTS: Healing of the man at the pool of Bethesda. Jesus answers the Jews. The four-fold witness to Jesus. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, infirm man, John the Baptist, Moses. CONCLUSION: Jesus Christ, th...
John 5:2. _Now there is at Jerusalem a pool, called Bethesda,_ which signifies a house of mercy, beneficence, or alms. The pool was situate at too great a distance from the temple to be a place for wa...
YOU STUDY THE SCRIPTURES. They were looking to find eternal life. Compare Romans 9:30-33. AND THEY THEMSELVES SPEAK ABOUT ME! The Scriptures gave their witness to Christ, The entire Old Testament poin...
_If I bear witness of Myself My witness is not true._ There is another that beareth witness of Me THE WITNESSES OF THE SON I. A GREAT WITNESS, His forerunner. The Baptist as a witness for Christ wa...
THE BOOK OF BOOKS Search the Scriptures. John 5:39 (AV). Every boy and girl has a Bible, and some of you here have quite a little library of other books. In these days of abundance of books for youn...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:39 Studying the Bible ought to result in genuine faith in Jesus. IT IS THEY THAT BEAR WITNESS ABOUT ME. See Overview of the Bible....
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:31 Jesus speaks of several witnesses who bear testimony concerning him (see chart). ⇐...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:1 Chapters John 5:1 tell of escalating conflict between Jesus and the Jewish authorities. As Jesus defends his ministry, he cites several major witnesses on his behalf....
VER. 36. _But I have greater witness_, &c.: _i.e._, than John's witness; _greater_ in the sense of _surer, more efficacious_, that I am Messiah, the Son of God. This greater testimony is My works, My...
_Search_ (scrutamini) _the Scriptures,_ &c. The word for _Search_ in Greek, as well as Latin, may be taken either in the indicative, or the imperative mood. Cyril takes it in the indicative: "Ye, 0 ye...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 5:19. THE SON CAN DO NOTHING OF HIMSELF.—This statement refers back to and justifies that of John 5:17. He is still speaking of the eternal relation in which He s...
EXPOSITION Here commences the second division of the Gospel (John 5:1) II. THE CONFLICT WITH THE CHOSEN PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM, GALILEE, AND JERUSALEM, TO THE
Shall we turn in our Bibles to the fifth chapter of the gospel of John. John has just recorded in the fourth chapter the ministry of Jesus in the Galilee when He was at the city of Cana and the noblem...
1 Peter 1:10; 1 Peter 1:11; 2 Peter 1:19; 2 Timothy 3:14; Acts 17:11
Search [ε ρ ε υ ν α τ ε]. Rev., rightly, ye search. Jesus is appealing to a familiar practice of which for in them ye think is explanatory. See 1 Peter 1:11; Romans 8:27; 1 Corinthians 2:10;...
The next testimony which Christ appeals to, is the testimony of the scriptures; that is, the writings of Moses and the prophets, which Christ bids the Jews diligently search, and they shall find that...