Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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John 5:25-29
The hour cometh—in its whole fulness, at Pentecost.
and now is—in its beginnings.
the dead—the spiritually dead, as is clear from John 5:28. Here He rises from the calmer phrase "hearing his word" (John 5:24), to the grander expression, "hearing the voice of the Son of God," to signify that as it finds men in a dead condition, so it carries with it a resurrection-power.
shall live—in the sense of John 5:24.
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