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The double "verily" is a characteristic of the words of the Lord preserved in the
Gospel of John (A.V.). In the Greek it is amen, amen; a Hebrew word transliterated into
Greek and then into English, our "amen". There are no les than 25 of these double amens
in this Gospel. The words are always used to introduce a statement of importance and
each should be carefully and prayerfully pondered. It is not possible to quote them all in
full, but we give the complete list so that the sincere seeker after truth may weigh them
over: 1: 51; 3: 3, 5, 11; 5: 19, 24, 25; 6: 26, 32, 47, 53; 8: 34, 51, 58; 10: 1, 7;
12: 24; 13: 16, 20, 21, 38; 14: 12; 16: 20, 23; 21: 18.
The Double Verities (Amens) of John's Gospel.
Verily, verily, I say unto you. Open heaven. Angels ascending and descending (1: 51).
Verily, verily, I say unto you. Without new birth, cannot see kingdom (3: 3).
Verily, verily, I say unto you. Unless born of water and spirit, no entrance (3: 5).
Verily, verily, I say unto you. We speak that we do know (3: 11).
Verily, verily, I say unto you. The Son can do nothing of Himself (5: 19).
Verily, verily, I say unto you. He that heareth . . . . . hath . . . . . life (5: 24).
Verily, verily, I say unto you. The dead shall hear . . . . . and live (5: 25).
Verily, verily, I say unto you. Ye seek Me . . . . . because ye did eat . . . . . (6: 26).
Verily, verily, I say unto you. Moses gave you not that bread from heaven (6: 32).
Verily, verily, I say unto you. He that believeth on Me hath everlasting life (6: 47).
Verily, verily, I say unto you. Except ye eat . . . . . drink . . . . . no life (6: 53).
Verily, verily, I say unto you. Whosoever commits sin is its servant (8: 34).
Verily, verily, I say unto you. If keep My saying, never see death (8: 51).
Verily, verily, I say unto you. Before Abraham was, I am (8: 58).
Verily, verily, I say unto you. Thieves climb up some other way (10: 1).
Verily, verily, I say unto you. I am the door of the sheep (10: 7).
Verily, verily, I say unto you. Except wheat . . . . . die . . . . . abideth alone (12: 24).
Verily, verily, I say unto you. Servant is not greater than his lord (13: 16).
Verily, verily, I say unto you. He that receiveth whom I send, receiveth Me (13: 20).
Verily, verily, I say unto you. One of you shall betray Me (13: 21).
Verily, verily, I say unto you. The cock shall not crow, before denial (13: 38).
Verily, verily, I say unto you. The believer shall do greater works (14: 12).
Verily, verily, I say unto you. Ye shall weep . . . . . but it will turn to joy (16: 20).
Verily, verily, I say unto you. Whatever you ask in My Name, The Father will give
(16: 23).
Verily, verily, I say unto you. When young . . . . . guidest self . . . . . when old another
guide thee (21: 18).
The Lord makes a direct reference to the dream of Jacob in Gen. 28: 12, 13, in
which heaven and earth are brought together by a ladder which links them both and that
ladder, as Christ asserted, was a picture of Himself and He is the only one in existence
who can fulfil what the ladder represents. As God, He touches heaven. As Man, He
reaches down to earth, and so He is the one Mediator between both that the apostle Paul
deals with in I Tim. 2: 5-7. Those who deny His deity have a broken ladder that cannot
reach to heaven. Those who deny His humanity, like the early followers of docetism,
likewise have a broken ladder which cannot reach to the earth.
As we have seen, the philosophical use of logos by the philosophers and early gnostics
of the first century and later, showed the utter failure of human wisdom to supply a