Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
Parallel translations
- KJV Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
- BSB Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
- NKJV But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
- NASB Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life.
- NLT Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words that give eternal life.
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Peter answers, 'Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.' He confesses that Jesus alone offers what the soul truly needs.
Overview
Speaking for the Twelve, Peter recognizes there is no other source of life. Having just heard Jesus call His words spirit and life (v. 63), Peter affirms that those very words give eternal life. His confession models true faith: clinging to Christ precisely because He alone has the words of salvation.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Ps 73:25Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.
- John 5:24“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
- 1 Jn 5:11–13The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
- Acts 4:12There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”
- Acts 5:20“Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.”
- John 6:63It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
- Matt 16:16Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
- Acts 7:38This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,
- John 6:40This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
- John 5:39–40“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
- John 17:8for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.
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