Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version yet you refuse to come to me to have life. New Living Translation Yet you refuse to come to me to receive this life. English Standard Version yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. Berean Standard Bible yet you refuse to come to Me to have life. Berean Literal Bible and you are not willing to come to Me, that you may have life. King James Bible And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. New King James Version But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. New American Standard Bible and yet you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life. NASB 1995 and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life. NASB 1977 and you are unwilling to come to Me, that you may have life. Legacy Standard Bible and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life. Amplified Bible and still you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life. Christian Standard Bible But you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life. Holman Christian Standard Bible And you are not willing to come to Me so that you may have life. American Standard Version and ye will not come to me, that ye may have life. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And you are not willing to come to me that eternal life may be yours. Contemporary English Version but you refuse to come to me for eternal life. Douay-Rheims Bible And you will not come to me that you may have life. English Revised Version and ye will not come to me, that ye may have life. GOD'S WORD® Translation Yet, you don't want to come to me to get [eternal] life. Good News Translation Yet you are not willing to come to me in order to have life. International Standard Version But you are not willing to come to me to have life. Literal Standard Version and you do not will to come to Me, that you may have life; Majority Standard Bible yet you refuse to come to Me to have life. New American Bible But you do not want to come to me to have life. NET Bible but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life. New Revised Standard Version Yet you refuse to come to me to have life. New Heart English Bible But you are unwilling to come to me so that you may have life. Webster's Bible Translation And ye will not come to me, that ye may have life. Weymouth New Testament and yet you are unwilling to come to me that you may have Life. World English Bible Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life. Young's Literal Translation and ye do not will to come unto me, that ye may have life; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Witness of Scripture39You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me, 40yet you refuse to come to Me to have life. 41I do not accept glory from men,… Cross References John 5:39 You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me, John 5:41 I do not accept glory from men, John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness. Treasury of Scripture And you will not come to me, that you might have life. ye will not. John 5:44 How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only? John 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 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. that. John 6:27,37,40,68,69 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed… John 7:37,38 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink… John 11:25,26 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: … Jump to Previous Desire Life Refuse UnwillingJump to Next Desire Life Refuse UnwillingJohn 5 1. Jesus on the Sabbath day cures him who was diseased thirty-eight years.10. The Jews therefore object, and persecute him for it. 17. He answers for himself, and reproves them, showing by the testimony of his Father, 31. of John, 36. of his works, 39. and of the Scriptures, who he is. (40) And ye will not come to me.--The real hindrance is once more traced to the will. (See Note on John 3:9.) It is moral, not intellectual. The result of a true willingness to know the truth is certain, not problematic. "Ye search because ye think ye have: if ye were willing to come, ye should really have." The lesson is wide in its bearing. The Rabbinic spirit is not confined to Rabbis, nor is the merely literal study of the Scriptures limited to those of Judaea. Dictionaries, and grammars, and commentaries, are tools; but the precious ore is in the mine, and is to be extracted by every man for himself. He who wisely uses the best means will know most of God and His truth; but this knowledge no man can purchase, and the essentials of it none need lack. It is to be learned in the closet, rather than in the library; in action and trust, rather than in scholarship and thought. Religion is not philosophy, and the world by knowledge has never known God. For every humble heart that willeth to be a scholar, God Himself willeth to be the Teacher. Verse 40. - And ye will not come to me, that ye may have life. This fearful conclusion of the whole matter is charged upon the responsibility of man. Doubtless, elsewhere, the will is described as itself made willing by the Divine attraction, by the grace of the Father. "He that hath seen and heard of the Father [seen, i.e. his shape and heard his voice - seen his shape and heard his voice in my ministry and manifestation], cometh unto me." Yet the grace of God working directly on character or indirectly by other revelations, never obliterates the sense of responsibility. The appeal of God is made to the will of man, whether we consciously or unconsciously are made "willing in the day of his power" (cf. John 7:17; John 6:44, 67; John 8:44). The sad tone of this solemn charge corresponds with and does much to explain the pathetic cry, "O Jerusalem... how often would I have gathered thy children... and ye would not!" while the entire passage suggests that this appeal was only one specimen out of many such discourses, one hint of the numerous sayings and self-manifestations, one of many accumulated proofs of his Divine commission, out of which the belief of the evangelists and the invincible assent of the Church arose, that he was indeed "the Word made flesh," "the Only Begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth."Parallel Commentaries ... Greek yetκαὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. you refuse θέλετε (thelete) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural Strong's 2309: To will, wish, desire, be willing, intend, design. to come ἐλθεῖν (elthein) Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active Strong's 2064: To come, go. to πρός (pros) Preposition Strong's 4314: To, towards, with. A strengthened form of pro; a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e. Toward. Me με (me) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Singular Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I. to ἵνα (hina) Conjunction Strong's 2443: In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that. have ἔχητε (echēte) Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 2nd Person Plural Strong's 2192: To have, hold, possess. Including an alternate form scheo skheh'-o; a primary verb; to hold. life. ζωὴν (zōēn) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 2222: Life, both of physical (present) and of spiritual (particularly future) existence. From zao; life. Links John 5:40 NIVJohn 5:40 NLT John 5:40 ESV John 5:40 NASB John 5:40 KJV John 5:40 BibleApps.com John 5:40 Biblia Paralela John 5:40 Chinese Bible John 5:40 French Bible John 5:40 Catholic Bible NT Gospels: John 5:40 Yet you will not come to me (Jhn Jo Jn) |