Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
Parallel translations
- WEB Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have 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.
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- Ps 73:25Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
- John 5:24Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
- 1 Jn 5:11–13And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
- Acts 4:12Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
- Acts 5:20Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.
- John 6:63It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
- Matt 16:16And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
- Acts 7:38This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
- John 6:40And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
- John 5:39–40Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
- John 17:8For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
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