John 5:24 "I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life."
Can we appreciate how this would have offended many Jews - the people who had the Law of Moses? A person was telling them that they must obey his words, when they had the words of God given to them in the Law. But they should have believed Jesus because the miracles he did testified to his divine approval. Of course, people today still stumble over the idea that eternal life can only be found in the words of Jesus. And we no longer have the excuse of having allegiance to another message from God. Instead, it is simply our own desire to follow the world that interferes with hearing the words of Jesus.
