Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
honour the Son as . . . the Father—As he who believes that Christ in the foregoing verses has given a true account of His relation to the Father must of necessity hold Him entitled to the same honor as the Father, so He here adds that it was the Father's express intention in making over all judgment to the Son, that men should thus honor Him.
honoureth not the Father—does not do it in fact, whatever he may imagine, and will be held as not doing it by the Father Himself, who will accept no homage which is not accorded to His own Son.
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 5:23:
Isaiah 50:10
Jeremiah 30:9
Haggai 2:23
John 5:20
John 8:50
Acts 10:40-41
Acts 17:31
Romans 1:1
Romans 1:7
1 Corinthians 15:28
Philippians 2:11
Revelation 16:13
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