Juan 8:51

51 Les digo la verdad, ¡todo el que obedezca mi enseñanza jamás morirá!

Juan 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.

Juan 8:51 In-Context

49 —dijo Jesús—,

50 Y, aunque no tengo ninguna intención de glorificarme a mí mismo, Dios va a glorificarme y él es el verdadero juez.

51 Les digo la verdad, ¡todo el que obedezca mi enseñanza jamás morirá!

52 —Ahora estamos convencidos de que estás poseído por un demonio —dijeron—. Hasta Abraham y los profetas murieron, pero tú dices: “¡El que obedezca mi enseñanza nunca morirá!”.

53 ¿Acaso eres más importante que nuestro padre Abraham? Él murió, igual que los profetas. ¿Tú quién te crees que eres?