Ἰωάννην 8:51

Greek Modern Translation

Αληθως, αληθως σας λεγω· Εαν τις φυλαξη τον λογον μου, θανατον δεν θελει ιδει εις τον αιωνα.

Parallel Translations

Byzantine/Majority Text
αμην αμην λεγω υμιν εαν τις τον λογον τον εμον τηρηση θανατον ου μη θεωρηση εις τον αιωνα

SBL Greek New Testament (2010)
ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ἐάν τις τὸν ⸂ἐμὸν λόγον⸃ τηρήσῃ, θάνατον οὐ μὴ θεωρήσῃ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.

Tischendorf 8th Edition
ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ἐάν τις τὸν ἐμὸν λόγον τηρήσῃ, θάνατον οὐ μὴ θεωρήσῃ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.

Textus Receptus (1550/1894)
αμην αμην λεγω υμιν εαν τις τον λογον τον εμον τηρηση θανατον ου μη θεωρηση εις τον αιωνα

Westcott/Hort UBS4 (1881)
αμην αμην λεγω υμιν εαν τις τον εμον λογον τηρηση θανατον ου μη θεωρηση εις τον αιωνα

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

If: John 3:15, John 3:16, John 5:24, John 6:50, John 11:25, John 11:26

keep: John 8:55, John 15:20

see: John 8:12, Psalms 89:48, Luke 2:26

Reciprocal: Psalms 49:9 - see Matthew 5:18 - verily Mark 9:1 - taste Luke 9:27 - taste John 1:51 - Verily John 3:36 - see John 5:26 - so hath John 8:18 - one John 8:58 - Verily John 14:6 - the life Acts 13:35 - to see 1 Corinthians 2:14 - they Hebrews 11:5 - translated

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If a man keep my saying - If he believes on me and obeys my commandments.

He shall never see death - To see death, or to taste of death, is the same as to die, Luke 2:26; Matthew 16:28; Mark 9:1. The sense of this passage is, “He shall obtain eternal life, or he shall be raised up to that life where there shall be no death.” See John 6:49-50; John 3:36; John 5:24; John 11:25-26.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 51. Shall never see death. — As Moses promised a long life, with abundance of temporal blessings, to those who should keep his statutes and ordinances, so he who keeps my doctrine shall not only have a long life, but shall never see death-he shall never come under the power of the death of the soul, but shall live eternally with me in glory.