💫WEB · John 5:40
What does John 5:40 mean?
"Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life."
— John 5:40 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.
You don’t have his word living in you; because you don’t believe him whom he sent.
“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
I don’t receive glory from men.
But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves.
I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
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