요한복음 5:39

KJV

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

— 요한복음 5:39, King James Version
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요한복음 5:39, King James Version.

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Jesus's challenge — 'you search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me' — identifies a fundamental hermeneutical error: reading the scriptures for the life they are thought to contain rather than for the one to whom they point. The verb 'search' (eraunate) may be indicative ('you search') or imperative ('search!'), with most modern scholars preferring the indicative as a description of the opponents' practice being critiqued. The argument inverts the normal sequence: the Scriptures are not the terminus of the quest but the testimony that directs the reader toward Christ as the source of life (5:40). The verse has been foundational for Christian hermeneutics of the Old Testament as christologically oriented — not as a proof-text collection but as a unified witness to the one who is its subject.

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ASV

Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;

YLT

`Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;

BBE

You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me.

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