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Jesus Claims Authority Over Life and Judgment

John 5:16-30

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Chapter 5
16 And for this the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. 17 But he answered them, "My Father is working until now, and I am working." 18 Therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God. 19 Jesus answered and said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, the Son is not able to do anything from himself unless he sees the Father doing something; for whatever that one does, the Son likewise does these things.” 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all things that he himself does. And greater works than these he will show him, so that you may marvel. 21 For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, so also the Son makes alive whom he wills. 22 For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son. 23 so that all 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. 24 Amen, amen, I say to you that the one hearing my word and believing the one who sent me has eternal life, and into judgment he does not come, but has passed over out of death into life. 25 Amen, amen, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and the ones having heard will live. 26 For just as the Father has life in himself, so he also gave the Son to have life in himself. 27 And he gave him authority to do judgment, because he is the Son of Man. 28 Do not marvel at this: an hour is coming when all those in the tombs will hear his voice. 29 And they will come out—those who have done good things, to a resurrection of life, and those who have practiced evil things, to a resurrection of judgment. 30 I am not able to do anything on my own; as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me.