¹⁶And on account of this the Jews began to persecute^* Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. ¹⁷But he answered^f them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.” ¹⁸So on account of this the Jews were seeking even more to kill him, because he not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God his own Father, thus^* making himself equal with God.

The Authority of the Son

¹⁹So Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, the Son can do nothing from himself except what he sees the Father doing. For whatever that one does, these things also the Son does likewise. ²⁰For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything that he himself is doing. And greater works than these he will show him, so that you will be astonished. ²¹For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them^* alive, thus also the Son makes alive whomever he wishes. ²²For the Father does not judge anyone, but he has given all judgment to the Son, ²³in order that all people^* will honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. ²⁴Truly, truly I say to you that the one who hears my word and who believes the one who sent me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

²⁵“Truly, truly I say to you, that an hour is coming—and now is here—when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and the ones who hear will live. ²⁶For just as the Father has life in himself, thus also he has granted to the Son to have life in himself. ²⁷And he has granted him authority to carry out judgment, because he is the Son of Man.

²⁸“Do not be astonished at this, because an hour is coming in which all those in the tombs will hear his voice ²⁹and they will come out—those who have done good things to a resurrection of life, but those who have practiced evil things to a resurrection of judgment. ³⁰I am able to do nothing from myself. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

Read in Logos

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

*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to persecute”)
fSome manuscripts have “Jesus answered”
*Here “thus” is supplied as a component of the participle (“making”) which is understood as result
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*The word “people” is not in the Greek text but is implied