because he is the Son of man—This seems to confirm the last remark, that what Christ had properly in view was the indwelling of the Son's essential life in humanity as the great theater and medium of divine display, in both the great departments of His work—life-giving and judgment. The appointment of a Judge in our own nature is one of the most beautiful arrangements of divine wisdom in redemption.

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.

Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 5:27:

Isaiah 32:2
Jeremiah 30:9
Ezekiel 2:1
Ezekiel 9:2
Ezekiel 37:10
Daniel 7:13
Zechariah 9:9
Matthew 20:8
John 5:20
Acts 10:40-41
Acts 17:31
1 Corinthians 4:5
1 Corinthians 9:21
Philippians 2:9

 

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