¹⁶The Jews began to persecute Jesus because he kept healing people on the day of rest—a holy day. ¹⁷Jesus replied to them, “My Father is working right now, and so am I.”

¹⁸His reply made the Jews more intent on killing him. Not only did he break the laws about the day of rest—a holy day, but also he made himself equal to God when he said repeatedly that God was his Father.

¹⁹Jesus said to the Jews, “I can guarantee this truth: The Son cannot do anything on his own. He can do only what he sees the Father doing. Indeed, the Son does exactly what the Father does. ²⁰The Father loves the Son and shows him everything he is doing. The Father will show him even greater things to do than these things so that you will be amazed. ²¹In the same way that the Father brings back the dead and gives them life, the Son gives life to anyone he chooses.

²²“The Father doesn’t judge anyone. He has entrusted judgment entirely to the Son ²³so that everyone will honor the Son as they honor the Father. Whoever doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him. ²⁴I can guarantee this truth: Those who listen to what I say and believe in the one who sent me will have eternal life. They won’t be judged because they have already passed from death to life.

²⁵“I can guarantee this truth: A time is coming (and is now here) when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who respond to it will live. ²⁶The Father is the source of life, and he has enabled the Son to be the source of life too.

²⁷“He has also given the Son authority to pass judgment because he is the Son of Man.^b²⁸Don’t be surprised at what I’ve just said. A time is coming when all the dead will hear his voice, ²⁹and they will come out of their tombs. Those who have done good will come back to life and live. But those who have done evil will come back to life and will be judged. ³⁰I can’t do anything on my own. As I listen ⸤to the Father⸥, I make my judgments. My judgments are right because I don’t try to do what I want but what the one who sent me wants.

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John 5:24: Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

Footnotes

b 5:27 “Son of Man” is a name Jesus called himself to show that he was not only God’s Son but also human.