John Gill
Verily verily, I say unto you,.... Who am the Amen, the true and faithful witness: he that heareth my word; by which is meant the Gospel, and is so called, both because it is spoken by Christ, and first began to be spoken by him; and because he is spoken of in it; his person, office, and work, peace, pardon, righteousness, life, and salvation by him, being the sum and substance of it: and by...
Matthew Henry
We have in the gospels a faithful record of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, Acts i. 1. These two are interwoven, because what he taught explained what he did, and what he did confirmed what he taught. Accordingly, we have in this chapter a miracle and a sermon. I. The miracle was the cure of an impotent man that had been diseased thirty-eight years, with the circumstances of that...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, — If we truly believe the word of Christ, and trust in him who sent his Son into the world, we have at this moment everlasting life. Joh_5:24. And shalt not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. What a grand verse this is! It is worthy to be written in letters...