Because I live

Soon the world will no longer see me, says Jesus on the evening before his death. But you will. I live, so you will live too. So your life doesn't hang on your own breath, but on his.

To whom does he show himself? To whoever has his commandments and also keeps them. That isn't the same thing. A Bible on the shelf isn't yet a word that is kept. Keeping means watching over it, like a guard. Whoever does that doesn't get an extra rule in return, but a person.