John 5:25
Verily, verily I say to you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear, shall live.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
26For as the Father has life in himself, so has he given to the Son also to have life in himself;
Cross References
Luke 9:60Jesus said: Let the dead bury their own dead; but do you go and publish abroad the kingdom of God.
Luke 15:32But it became us to make merry and rejoice; for this your brother was dead, and is alive again: was lost, and is found.
John 4:23But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father seeks such to worship him.
John 5:28Be not astonished at this; for the hour is coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
John 8:47He that is of God, hears God’s words. For this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God.
John 17:1Jesus spoke these words, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said: Father, the hour has come: glorify thy Son, that thy Son may also glorify thee;
Matthew Henry on John 5:18-31
Christ's Discourse with the Jews; All Judgment Committed to Christ; The Christian Charter. 17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. 18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. 19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth… Read the whole commentary →