João 8:51

51 Em verdade, em verdade vos digo que, se alguém guardar a minha palavra, nunca verá a morte.

João 8:51 Meaning and Commentary

John 8:51

Verily, verily, I say unto you
This is truth, and may be depended upon, as coming from the "Amen", and faithful witness:

if a man keep my saying;
or doctrine, receives the Gospel in the love of it, obeys it from his heart, and cordially embraces and firmly believes it; and retains and holds it fast, having a spiritual and comfortable experience of the doctrines of Christ, and yielding a cheerful and ready obedience to his commands and ordinances, in faith and love:

he shall never see death;
the second death, eternal death, which is an everlasting separation of a man, body and soul, from God: this death shall have no power on such a person, he shall never be hurt by it; and though he dies a corporeal death, that shall not be a curse, a penal evil to him; nor shall he always lie under the power of it, but shall rise again, and live in soul and body, for ever with the Lord: seeing and tasting death, as in ( John 8:52 ) , are Hebraisms expressive of dying.

João 8:51 In-Context

49 Jesus respondeu: Eu não tenho demônio; antes honro a meu Pai, e vós me desonrais.

50 Eu não busco a minha glória; há quem a busque, e julgue.

51 Em verdade, em verdade vos digo que, se alguém guardar a minha palavra, nunca verá a morte.

52 Disseram-lhe os judeus: Agora sabemos que tens demônios. Abraão morreu, e também os profetas; e tu dizes: Se alguém guardar a minha palavra, nunca provará a morte!

53 Porventura és tu maior do que nosso pai Abraão, que morreu? Também os profetas morreram; quem pretendes tu ser?