John 5:27
And He has conferred on Him authority to act as Judge, because He is the Son of Man.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
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
John 5:22The Father indeed does not judge any one, but He has entrusted all judgement to the Son,
Acts 17:31seeing that He has appointed a day on which, before long, He will judge the world in righteousness, through the instrumentality of a man whom He has pre-destined to this work, and has made the fact certain to every one by raising Him from the dead."
Ephesians 1:20when He displayed it in Christ by raising Him from the dead and seating Him at His own right hand in the heavenly realms,
Hebrews 2:7Thou hast made him only a little inferior to the angels; with glory and honour Thou hast crowned him, and hast set him to govern the works of Thy hands.
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 →