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John Gill
And this is life eternal,.... That is, the beginning and pledge of it, the way unto it, and means of it, and what will certainly issue in it: that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. The knowledge of God here spoken of, is not the knowledge of him by the light of nature, and works of creation; for a man may know God in this sense, and not know him in...
Matthew Henry
This chapter is a prayer, it is the Lord's prayer, the Lord Christ's prayer. There was one Lord's prayer which he taught us to pray, and did not pray himself, for he needed not to pray for the forgiveness of sin; but this was properly and peculiarly his, and suited him only as a Mediator, and is a sample of his intercession, and yet is of use to us both for instruction and encouragement in...
Charles H. Spurgeon
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. To know God, is eternal life. If you know God, if you know Jesus Christ whom he has sent, you are spiritually quickened. That knowledge has brought to you, nay, it is, in itself, the new life: “This is life eternal,” — not life for a few years but life eternal. Mark the final...
Charles H. Spurgeon
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. No man has life eternal, then, who is in ignorance of God, and of his Son, Jesus Christ; but once to know God, and to know Christ, is sure evidence that we possess a life that can never die: “This is life eternal.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. This does not mean mere head-knowledge; but to know in the heart and soul the one only true God, and Jesus Christ who was sent of him to the sons of men, “this is life eternal.” God without Christ brings not eternal life, and Christ, if he were not sent of God, would not bring eternal...
Charles H. Spurgeon
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. The knowledge of God, and the knowledge of the Messiah, the Sent One, — this is not only life, but it is life that can never die: “This is life eternal.” Have you, dear friend, received this eternal life? Do you know the only true God? Do you know Jesus Christ whom he has sent? Then, at...
Charles H. Spurgeon
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. Dost thou really know the only true God, and Jesus Christ, his Son? Hast thou been brought into such familiar acquaintance with God as to accept Jesus Christ as thy Saviour? Then, thou hast eternal life, and thou mayest rejoice that thou hast a life like that of God himself, which can...
Charles H. Spurgeon
As thou has given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou has given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom though hast sent. See how he puts himself side by side with God as no mere man might dare to do. Only he who was equal with the Father could venture to plead thus, claiming power over all flesh,...
Charles H. Spurgeon
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. By this, then, dear friends, we can know whether we have eternal life or not. Do we know the Father? Do we know Jesus Christ as the Messiah the Sent One? Are we resting in that blessed knowledge? If so, he has given to us eternal life.
Charles H. Spurgeon
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. So that the only way to obtain eternal life is to know God the Father and God the Son, and the best way to know them is to ask God the Holy Spirit to teach us what is revealed concerning them in the Sacred Scriptures which he inspired holy men of old to write.
Charles H. Spurgeon
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. To know God in the sense of being acquainted with him — loving him —abiding in fellowship with him — this is life eternal. To know God in Christ Jesus is to be saved indeed.
Charles H. Spurgeon
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. Is the knowledge of God life? Is the knowledge of Jesus Christ life? It is even so. But what a blessed form of knowledge this is! It is taught to us by the Spirit of God in a special and remarkable way. This is life eternal.
Charles H. Spurgeon
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. Do you know God? Do you know Jesus Christ? Are you on speaking terms, on loving terms, with them? Are they your friends? Then, you have eternal life; for “this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”