Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
For the Father judgeth no man, etc.—rather, "For neither doth the Father judge any man," implying that the same "thing was meant in the former verse of the quickening of the dead"—both acts being done, not by the Father and the Son, as though twice done, but by the Father through the Son as His voluntary Agent.
all judgment—judgment in its most comprehensive sense, or as we should say, all administration.
raiseth the dead and quickeneth them—one act in two stages. This is His absolute prerogative as God.
so the Son quickeneth them—that is, raiseth up and quickeneth.
whom he will—not only doing the same divine act, but doing it as the result of His own will, even as the Father does it. This statement is of immense importance in relation to the miracles of Christ, distinguishing them from similar miracles of prophets and apostles, who as human instruments were employed to perform super-natural actions, while Christ did all as the Father's commissioned Servant indeed, but in the exercise of His own absolute right of action.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 5:22:
Psalms 72:1
Jeremiah 30:9
Ezekiel 9:2
Haggai 2:23
John 5:20
Acts 10:40-41
Acts 17:31
Romans 1:1
1 Corinthians 4:5
1 Corinthians 9:21
1 Corinthians 15:28
Ephesians 5:21
Philippians 2:11
1 Peter 1:17
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