John 5:40 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴⁰And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

John 5:40 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 3:19
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
John 1:11
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
John 6:37
All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
Psalms 81:11
But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Topics

Atheism Atonement Disbelief Godlessness Hades Immortality Impenitence Infidelity

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 ev…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 40)

39-42. Search the scriptures, &c.--“In the Scriptures ye find your charter of eternal life; go search them then, and you will find that I am the Great Burden of their testimony; yet ye will not come to Me for that life eternal which you profess to find there, and of which they tell you I am the appointed Dispenser.” (Compare Ac 17:11, 12). How touching and gracious are these last words! Observe he…