Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death: - thus vindicating His lofty claims, as Lord of the kingdom of life everlasting, and, at the same time, holding out even to His revilers the scepter of grace. The word "keep" х teereesee (G5083)] is in harmony with His former saying to those who believed in Him, "If ye continue in my word," expressing the permanency, as a living and paramount principle, of that faith to which He referred. This promise - "he shall never see death" - though expressed before (John 5:24; John 6:40; John 6:47; John 6:51), is the strongest and most naked statement yet given of a very glorious truth. In John 11:26 it is repeated in nearly identical terms.