John 5:26

My Father has power to make things live. Similarly, he has given me the power to enable people to live eternally.

Translation for Translators

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

25Listen to this carefully: There will be a time when those who are ◄spiritually dead/separated from God► will hear the voice of me, ◄the Son of God/the man who is also God►. In fact, it is that time already. Those who hear and pay attention to my message will have eternal life.

27Because I am the one who came from heaven, he has given me the authority to judge people concerning their sins.

Read all of John 5

Cross References

Psalms 36:9You are the one who causes everything to live; your light is what enables us to see.

Jeremiah 10:10But Yahweh is the only true God; he is the all-powerful God, the king who rules forever. When he is angry, all the earth shakes/quakes; and the people of the nations cannot endure what he does when he is angry with them.

John 4:10Jesus replied to her, “If you (sg) knew what God wanted to give you, and if you knew who I am, the one who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked me, and I would have given you water that gives life.”

John 7:37On each of the seven days of the celebration, the high priest poured out some water on the altar in the Temple to remember how God provided water for the people in the desolate area long ago. But the water he poured did not help anyone who was thirsty. So on the last day of the festival, which was the most important day, Jesus stood up in the Temple courtyard and said with a loud voice, “Those who are thirsty should come to me to drink what I will give them.

John 11:26Furthermore, all those who believe in me while they are alive, their souls will not die forever. Do you believe that?”

John 14:19Soon those who do not belong to God [MTY] will not see me any more. But when the Spirit comes to you, it will be as though you will be seeing me again (OR, But after I become alive again, you will see me again.) Because I will be alive again, you also will have eternal life.

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study John 5:26