John 5:25
"In most solemn truth I tell you that a time is coming--nay, has already come--when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
26For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has also given to the Son to have life in Himself.
Cross References
Luke 9:60"Leave the dead," Jesus rejoined, "to bury their own dead; but you must go and announce far and wide the coming of the Kingdom of God."
Luke 15:32We are bound to make merry and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and has come back to life, he was lost and has been found.'"
John 4:23But a time is coming--nay, has already come--when the true worshippers will worship the Father with true spiritual worship; for indeed the Father desires such worshippers.
John 5:28Wonder not at this. For a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear His voice and will come forth--
John 8:47He who is a child of God listens to God's words. You do not listen to them: and why? It is because you are not God's children."
John 17:1When Jesus had thus spoken, He raised his eyes towards Heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify Thy Son that the Son may glorify Thee;
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 →