JOHN 5:39, C. H. Cayce Several years ago Sister F. L Stockton, Greenwood Springs, Miss., requested us to give our views on the text cited above, which reads, “Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.” This was said by the Saviour to the unbelieving Jews. They thought they had eternal life in the Scriptures. Some people think the same way today. But eternal life is not in the Scriptures. The Scriptures testify of Jesus; they tell where eternal life is. The Scriptures testify that eternal life is in Jesus Christ. If God’s people, those who have been born again, and who have been taught that eternal life is in the Scriptures, would search the Scriptures for themselves, they would find they have been taught wrong, and that eternal life is in Jesus and not in the Scriptures. The Primitive Baptist, Sept. 5, 1935