The 25 "Verily, Verily" Sayings Of The Gospel According To John

by GEORGE MILLAR | Category: General | Mar 1933

Chapter Verse

1.1.51, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU,

Ye shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.

2.3.3,VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE,

Except a man be born anew, he cannot see

the kingdom of God.

3.3.5, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE,

Except a man be born of water and the Spirit

he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

4.3.11, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE,

We speak that we do know, and bear witness

of that We have seen; and ye receive not

our witness

5.5.19, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU,

The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what

He seeth the Father doing.

6.5. 24, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU,

He that heareth My word, and believeth Him

I that sent Me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgement, but hath passed out of death into life.

5.25, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU,

The hour cometh, and now is, when the dead

shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and. they that hear shall live.

8.6.26, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU,

Ye seek Me, not because ye saw signs, but

because ye ate of the loaves, and were filled.

9.6.32,VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU,

It was not Moses that gave you the bread out

of heaven; but My Father giveth you the true

bread out of heaven.

10.6.47, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOIT,

He that believeth hath eternal life.

11.6.53, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU,

Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, ye have not life in yourselves.

12.8.34, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU,

Every one that committeth sin is the bond servant of sin.

13.8. 51,VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU,

If a man keep My word, he shall never see

death.

14.8.58,VERILY, VERILY, 1 SAY UNTO YOU,

Before Abraham was, I am.

1510.1, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU,

He that entereth not by the door into the

fold of the sheep, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

16.10.7,VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU,

I am the door of the sheep.

17.12.24, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU,

Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and Idie, it abideth by itself alone ; but if it die, it beareth much fruit.

18.13.16, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU,

A servant is not greater than his lord; neither one that is sent greater than he that sent him.

19.13.20, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU,

He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth Me; and he that receiveth Me receiveth

20.13.21,Him that sent Me.

VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU,

that one of you shall betray Me.

21.13.38,VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE,

The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied Me thrice.

22. 14. 12, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU,

He that believeth on Me, the works that I do

23.16.20shall he do also; and greater works than

these shall he do; because I go unto the Father.

VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU,

That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

24.16.23, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU,

If ye shall ask anything of the Father, he will give it you in My name.

25.21.18, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY TJNTO THEE,

When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself,

and walkedst whither thou wouldest; but

when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch

forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.

EXPLANATORY OF THE TABULATED PAGES-

These twenty-five sayings of the Master seem to be divided into two groups of twelve each, the central saying being John 8. 51. The first group is again divided into exactly two parts by the two sayings together in chapter 5. 24, 25. Similarly the second group is divided by the two sayings together in chapter 13. 20, 21. We thus have five central points, dividing the whole into five groups, of five in each. These have a wonderful setting, see (a) chapter 5. 19 to 29 ; (b) chapter 8. 31 to 59; (c) chapter 13. 20 to 38. Again, the seven sayings commencing at 13. 16, to 16. 23, were all spoken within twenty-four hours namely, between the keeping of the Passover and His death upon Golgotha.

Each saying is worthy of close examination, as it were, with a spiritual microscope, and they will well repay such exercise. But look at them grouped as a whole, and observe how the first one is in the first chapter and the last one in the last chapter. Note the setting of each and the scene with which it is connected. As we thus think of them they appear as gems of exquisite beauty, cut and polished by Divine skill and perfectly set by Heavenly Wisdom in the last one of the Sacred Writings which are generally known as the four Gospels.

Strewn throughout the whole record, they are each introduced by the unique phrase commencing, "Verily, verily " which means, Amen, amen (see 1 Corinthians 14. 16, where the word is untranslated. This word repeated, is translated, "Verily, verily," in the Gospel according to John).

Contrast the Beatitudes grouped together in Matthew, chapter 5.

GEORGE MILLAR | Mar 1933
General