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.
25Most 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.
26For aas the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have blife in Himself,
27and ahas given Him authority to execute judgment also, bbecause He is the Son of Man.
28Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will ahear His voice
29aand come forth—bthose who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.
30aI can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because bI do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.
The Fourfold Witness
31a“If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not1true.
In himself (en eautw). The Living God possesses life wholly in himself and so he has bestowed this power of life to the Son as already stated in the Prologue of the Logos (John 1:3). For "gave" (edwken, timeless aorist active indicative) see also John 3:35; John 17:2, John 17:24. The particles "as" (wsper) and "so" (outwv) mark here the fact, not the degree (Westcott).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 5:26:
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