And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
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Barnes' Notes
Is life everlasting - Is the cause or source of everlasting life. He that obeys the commandment of God shall obtain everlasting life; and this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his…
Adam Clarke
I know that this commandment is life everlasting - These words of our Lord are similar to that saying in St. John's first epistle, Jo1 5:11, Jo1 5:12. This is the record, that God hath given unto us…
We have here the honour Christ not assumed, but asserted, to himself, in the account he gave of his mission and his errand into the world. Probably this discourse was not at the same time with that…
Cambridge Bible
And I know The Son's testimony to the Father. -The commission which He hath given Me is eternal life." (See on Joh 3:16.) His commission is to save the world.
as the Father said The same distinction…
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