Verily, verily........

After yesterdays rumination upon a "verily, verily" phrase, my interest in them all has been rekindled. The fact that this blog comes from the first of these phrases should be enough to let you know my feelings on them.

The phrase "verily, verily" is unique to John, and could easily be "amen, amen," or "Truly, truly," or "Surely, surely." Whatever it is translated as, it is certain that what follows is of extreme importance.

So here they all are, all 25 of them.
I have started to organise them, but work is slow on this.

Verily, verily,
I say unto you,
Ye shall see the heaven opened,
and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.
John 1:51 RV

Verily, verily,
I say unto thee,
Except a man be born anew,
he cannot see the kingdom of God.
John 3:3 RV

Verily, verily,
I say unto thee,
Except a man be born of water and the Spirit,
he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
John 3:5 RV

Verily, verily,
I say unto thee,
We speak that we do know,
and bear witness of that we have seen;
and ye receive not our witness.
John 3:11 RV

Verily, verily,
I say unto you,
The Son can do nothing of himself,
but what he seeth the Father doing:
for what things soever he doeth,
these the Son also doeth in like manner.
John 5:19 RV

Verily, verily,
I say unto you,
He that heareth my word,
and believeth him that sent me,
hath eternal life,
and cometh not into judgment,
but hath passed out of death into life.
John 5:24 RV

Verily, verily,
I say unto you,
The hour cometh,
and now is,
when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God;
and they that hear shall live.
John 5:25 RV

Verily, verily,
I say unto you,
Ye seek me,
not because ye saw signs,
but because ye ate of the loaves,
and were filled.
John 6:26 RV

Verily, verily,
I say unto you,
It was not Moses that gave you the bread out of heaven;
but my Father giveth you the true bread out of heaven.
John 6:32 RV

Verily, verily,
I say unto you,
He that believeth hath eternal life.
John 6:47 RV

Verily, verily,
I say unto you,
Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood,
ye have not life in yourselves.
John 6:53 RV

Verily, verily,
I say unto you,
Every one that committeth sin is the bondservant of sin.
John 8:34 RV

Verily, verily,
I say unto you,
If a man keep my word,
he shall never see death.
John 8:51 RV

Verily, verily,
I say unto you,
Before Abraham was, I am.
John 8:58 RV

Verily, verily,
I say unto you,
He that entereth not by the door into the fold of the sheep,
but climbeth up some other way,
the same is a thief and a robber.
John 10:1 RV

Verily, verily,
I say unto you,
I am the door of the sheep.
John 10:7 RV

Verily, verily,
I say unto you,
Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die,
it abideth by itself alone;
but if it die,
it beareth much fruit.
John 12:24 RV

Verily, verily,
I say unto you,
A servant is not greater than his lord;
neither one that is sent greater than he that sent him.
John 13:16 RV

Verily, verily,
I say unto you,
He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me;
and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
John 13:20 RV

Verily, verily,
I say unto you,
that one of you shall betray me.
John 13:21 RV

Verily, verily,
I say unto thee,
The cock shall not crow,
till thou hast denied me thrice.
John 13:38 RV

Verily, verily,
I say unto you,
He that believeth on me,
the works that I do shall he do also;
and greater works than these shall he do;
because I go unto the Father.
John 14:12 RV

Verily, verily,
I say unto you,
that ye shall weep and lament,
but the world shall rejoice:
ye shall be sorrowful,
but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
John 16:20 RV

Verily, verily,
I say unto you,
If ye shall ask anything of the Father,
he will give it you in my name.
John 16:23 RV

Verily, verily,
I say unto thee,
When thou wast young,
thou girdedst thyself,
and walkedst whither thou wouldest:
but when thou shalt be old,
thou shalt stretch forth thy hands,
and another shall gird thee,
and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
John 21:18 RV