John 5:42

John 5:42

40 ^aBut you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.

41 ^a“I do not receive honor from men.

42 But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you.

43 I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.

44 ^aHow can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek ^bthe honor that comes from the only God?

45 Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; ^athere is one who accuses you—Moses, in whom you trust.

46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; ^afor he wrote about Me.

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Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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But I know you (alla egnwka umav). Perfect active indicative of ginwskw, "I have come to know and still know," the knowledge of personal experience (John 2:24 f.).

The love o' God (thn agaphn tou qeou). Objective genitive, "the love toward God." See Luke 11:42 for this phrase in the same sense (only other instance in the Gospels, but common in 1John (I John 2:5; I John 3:17; I John 4:7, I John 4:9; I John 5:3) and in II Thessalonians 3:5; II Corinthians 13:14; Romans 5:5. The sense of God's love for man occurs in I John 3:1; I John 4:9-10, I John 4:16; John 15:9 f. of Christ's love for man. These rabbis did not love God and hence did not love Christ.

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