Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Marvel not at this—this committal of all judgment to the Son of man.
for the hour is coming—He adds not in this case (as in John 5:25), "and now is," because this was not to be till the close of the whole dispensation of mercy.
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 5:28:
Job 14:15
Ezekiel 37:10
John 5:20
John 5:25-29
John 11:43-44
1 Corinthians 15:52
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