50And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
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And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 44-50)We have here the honour Christ not assumed, but asserted, to himself, in the account he gave of his mission and his errand into the world. Probably this discourse was not at the same time with that before (for them he departed , John 12:36), but some time after, when he made another public appearance; and, as this evangelist records it, it was Christ’s farewell sermon to the Jews, and his last pub…
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