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17 But Jesus answered them, a“My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.”  
18 Therefore the Jews asought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, bmaking Himself equal with God.  
19 Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, athe Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.  
20 For athe Father loves the Son, and bshows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel.  
21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, aeven so the Son gives life to whom He will.  
22 For the Father judges no one, but ahas committed all judgment to the Son,  
23 that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. aHe who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.  

Life and Judgment Are Through the Son

24 “Most assuredly, I say to you, ahe who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, bbut has passed from death into life.  
25 Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when athe dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live.  
26 For aas the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have blife in Himself,  
27 and ahas given Him authority to execute judgment also, bbecause He is the Son of Man.  
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John 5:19

The Son (o uiov). The absolute use of the Son in relation to the Father admitting the charge in verse John 5:18 and defending his equality with the Father.

Can do nothing by himself (ou dunatai poiein afeautou ouden). True in a sense of every man, but in a much deeper sense of Christ because of the intimate relation between him and the Father. See this same point in John 5:30; John 7:28; John 8:28; John 14:10. Jesus had already made it in John 5:17. Now he repeats and defends it.

But what he seeth the Father doing (an mh ti bleph ton patera poiounta). Rather, "unless he sees the Father doing something." Negative condition (an mh=ean mh, if not, unless) of third class with present (habit) subjunctive (bleph) and present active participle (poiounta). It is a supreme example of a son copying the spirit and work of a father. In his work on earth the Son sees continually what the Father is doing. In healing this poor man he was doing what the Father wishes him to do.

For what things soever he doeth, these the Son also doeth in like manner (a gar an ekeinov poih tauta kai o uiov omoiwv poiei). Indefinite relative clause with an and the present active subjunctive (poih). Note ekeinov, emphatic demonstrative, that one, referring to the Father. This sublime claim on the part of Jesus will exasperate his enemies still more.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 5:19:

Luke 1:35
John 3:35
John 5:17
John 5:30
John 7:26
John 8:13
John 10:18
John 10:30
John 10:36
John 13:21
John 14:10
Revelation 20:11

 

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