John 5:26

John 5:26

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.

28 Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will ^ahear His voice

29 ^aand come forth—^bthose who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.

30 ^aI 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

31 ^a“If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not¹ true.

32 ^aThere is another who bears witness of Me, and I know that the witness which He witnesses of Me is true.

33 You have sent to John, ^aand he has borne witness to the truth.

34 Yet I do not receive testimony from man, but I say these things that you may be saved.

35 He was the burning and ^ashining lamp, and ^byou were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.

36 But ^aI have a greater witness than John’s; for ^bthe works which the Father has given Me to finish—the very ^cworks that I do—bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me.

37 And the Father Himself, who sent Me, ^ahas testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, ^bnor seen His form.

38 But you do not have His word abiding in you, because whom He sent, Him you do not believe.

39 ^aYou search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and ^bthese are they which testify of Me.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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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).

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