John 17:3
And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
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from Jamieson, Fausset, Brown
"This life eternal, then, is not mere conscious and unending existence, but a life of acquaintance with God in Christ."
and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent: "This is the only place where our Lord gives Himself this compound name, afterwards so current in apostolic preaching and writing. Here the terms are used in their strict signification. JESUS, because He saves His people from their sins; CHRIST, as the anointed with the measureless fulness of the Holy Spirit."
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John 10:10b
...I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
JFB:
Not merely to preserve but impart LIFE, and communicate it in rich and unfailing exuberance. What a claim! Yet it is only an echo of all His teaching; and He who uttered these and like words must be either a blasphemer, all worthy of the death He died, or "God with us"--there can be no middle course.
:cloud9: Knowing Him... there is nothing that compares. :cloud9:
Amen to both.