Expository Thoughts (continued)
Jesus and His Apostles? God forbid that we should think so! Then let us stand fast, and not doubt that every word in the Old Testament, as well as in the New, was given by inspiration of God.
Technical Notes:
40. And ye will not come to me that ye might have life.
41. I do not receive honor from men. 42. But I know you, that ye do not have the love of God in you. 43. I am come in my Father's name, and ye do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, him ye will receive. 44. How can ye believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek the honor that comes from God only? 45. Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. 46. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me. 47. But if ye do not believe his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
40. [And ye will not...life.] The connection between this verse and the preceding one is not very clear. It is one of those abrupt elliptical transitions which occur frequently in St. John's writings. I conjecture the link must be something of this kind: "The Scriptures testify plainly of Me. And yet in the face of this testimony, ye have no will or inclination to come to Me by faith, that ye may have eternal life through Me." This verse evidently begins the third part of our Lord's address to the Jews. He had declared the relation between Himself