John 5:26
For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself,
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
In Context
27and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man.
Cross References
John 4:10Jesus answered and said to her, “If you had known the gift of God, and who it is that says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given to you living water.”
John 7:37Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.
John 11:26And everyone who lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
John 14:19“Yet a little while and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also.
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 →