“Wherefore also John does appropriately relate that the Lord said to the Jews: "Ye search the Scriptures, in which ye think ye have eternal life; these are they which testify of me. And ye are not willing to come unto Me, that ye may have life." How therefore did the Scriptures testify of Him, unless they were from one…”
Irenaeus, 3th c. — Against Heresies Book IV
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39Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
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37And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
38And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.
— John 5:39 —
40And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.