John 5:24

5:24 “I tell you the solemn truth, ¹  the one who hears ²  my message ³  and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, ⁴  but has crossed over from death to life.

John 5:39-40

5:39 You study the scriptures thoroughly ⁵  because you think in them you possess eternal life, ⁶  and it is these same scriptures ⁷  that testify about me, 5:40 but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.

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¹ tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”

² tn Or “obeys.”

³ tn Or “word.”

⁴ tn Grk “and does not come into judgment.”

⁵ tn Or “Study the scriptures thoroughly” (an imperative). For the meaning of the verb see G. Delling, TDNT 2:655-57.

⁶ sn In them you possess eternal life. Note the following examples from the rabbinic tractate Pirqe Avot (“The Sayings of the Fathers”): Pirqe Avot 2:8, “He who has acquired the words of the law has acquired for himself the life of the world to come”; Pirqe Avot 6:7, “Great is the law for it gives to those who practice it life in this world and in the world to come.”

⁷ tn The words “same scriptures” are not in the Greek text, but are supplied to clarify the referent (“these”).