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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. Let me read those precious words again, catch at them, you timid and trembling ones: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath “ — now, in present possession, —...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Not that any man hath seen the Father save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. One of the richest passages surely of all holy Scripture. It is all marrow and fatness, but here you seem to have the quintessence. We have eternal life if we are believers not shall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father. Christ is “of God” in a very peculiar sense. He is not God’s creature, but God’s Son He is of the very essence of God, and therefore he knows what God is as we never can know.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father. The Divine Son hath seen the Father; you and I are to believe, we cannot see as yet.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Verily, verily, I say unto you,.... This is a certain truth, and to be depended on: he that believeth on me hath everlasting life; not only he may have it, as in John 6:40, and shall have it, but he has it; he has it in Christ, his head and representative; he has it in the covenant of grace; he has it in faith and hope; he has a right unto it, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Verily, verily, I say unto you, — Jesus uttered this great truth with very special emphasis: “Verily, verily, I say unto you,” — Joh_6:47. He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. That text is worthy to be printed in letters of gold, and then the letters would be far inferior to the message itself. If it be written on all your hearts by the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. This was how our Lord spoke straight to the face of those who had derided him, and said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know ?” With the strongest asseveration which he was in the habit of using, he says, “Verily, verily, I say unto...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life. This is a grand saying, can you not catch the truth it reveals? Whatever deficiencies there may be in you, if you believe on Christ, you have everlasting life, — not a life which you can lose, or which will die out, but everlasting life; and we-are not among those who...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. He has it even now in possession; a life that can never die out is in the breast of every man who believes in Christ. Oh, what a joy is this!
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I am that bread of life. [See comments on John 6:35].
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am that bread of life. Your Fathers did eat manna in the wilderness and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh, down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. He does not say, “Our fathers.” He comes out, as it were, as much from the Jews as from the Gentile ungodly world, and he says, “Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am that bread of life. The food on which that everlasting life lives — living bread for living souls. O brethren, the dead letter is of no use to us. All the truth in the world, unto - “it be quickening, cannot feed our quickened natures. It in incarnate truth, even Christ that we must feed upon. “I am that bread of life.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. Christ is the Bread for the soul, the Bread of immortality, the Bread which will fit a man for heaven, and sustain him till he arrives there. Oh, that we may all eat of this...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am that bread of life. Jesus is that bread which feeds the spiritual life, and sustains the everlasting life.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness,.... All the while they were in the wilderness, for the space of forty years, till they came to the borders of the land of Canaan; this was their only food on which they lived, during their travels through the wilderness. It is observable, that Christ says, not "our fathers", but "your fathers"; for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. For that manna of theirs was corruptible. We read that it bred worms and stank, and though it was an angels’ food for a time, yet it was but temporary. It only fed a temporary life, and, like that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. The bread that feeds the undying life is Christ Jesus himself, whom we do spiritually feed upon, and who is the nourishment of our souls.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven,.... Namely, that of which he had spoken John 6:32, meaning himself: that a man may eat thereof, and not die; for this heavenly bread is soul quickening, soul strengthening, and soul satisfying food; nor can there be any want where this is: eating of it is not to be understood corporeally, as these...