John 5:28

Why are you shocked? A time is coming when all the dead people will hear my voice.

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,

In Context

27I am God’s special man from heaven, and God told me to be the judge.

29They will hear me, then they will come alive again. The people that have done good things and lived the way God wants them to, those people will live with him for ever. But God will punish the other people, the people that went against him and did bad things.

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Cross References

John 3:7I said, ‘You have to get born again.’ Don’t get shocked by that.

John 5:20Listen, my father loves me. I am his son, and he shows me everything that he is doing. And my father will show me even more powerful things to do. You will see them, and you will be surprised.

John 11:24Martha said, “Yes, I know he will come back to life, on the day when the world will finish up, when everyone will be alive again.”

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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