And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
And ye will not come, [ ou (G3756 ) thelete (G2309 ) elthein (G2064 ), rather 'ye are not willing to come'] to me, that ye might have life: - q.d., 'With disregarding the Scriptures I charge you not: Ye do indeed busy yourselves about them (He was addressing, it will be remembered, the rulers-see the note at John 5:16): rightly deeming them your charter of eternal life: But ye miss the great Burden of them: Of Me it is they testify; and yet to Me ye will not come for that eternal life which ye profess to find there, and of which they proclaim Me the ordained Dispenser.' (See Acts 17:11-12.) Severe though this rebuke was, there is something most touching and gracious in it.