John 5:21

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

Text-Critical English NT

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

20For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself does. And he will show him greater works than these, so that you will be amazed.

22The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,

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Cross References

Luke 7:14Then he came up and touched the bier, and those who were carrying it stood still. He said, “Young man, I say to yoʋ, arise!”

John 11:25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he may die, yet shall he live.

John 17:2just as yoʋ have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to everyone yoʋ have given him.

Romans 4:17(just as it is written, “I have made yoʋ the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of the God in whom he believed, 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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