John 5:21

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.

In Context

20The Father loves the Son and shows Him all He does. And to your amazement, He will show Him even greater works than these.

22Furthermore, the Father judges no one, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:39See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

2 Kings 4:32When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his bed.

Luke 7:14Then He went up and touched the coffin, and those carrying it stood still. “Young man,” He said, “I tell you, get up!”

John 11:25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.

John 17:2For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.

Romans 4:17As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.

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 →

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