40And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 31-47)In these verses our Lord Jesus proves and confirms the commission he had produced, and makes it out that he was sent of God to be the Messiah. I. He sets aside his own testimony of himself (John 5:31): “ If I bear witness of myself , though it is infallibly true (John 8:14), yet, according to the common rule of judgment among men, you will not admit it as legal proof , nor allow it to be given in…
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