John 5:15-31

¹⁵The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

¹⁶For this reason, the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

¹⁷Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”

¹⁸Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

¹⁹Then Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless He sees the Father do it, for whatever He does, the Son does likewise.

²⁰The Father loves the Son, and shows Him everything that He Himself does. He will show Him even greater works than these, that you may marvel.

²¹As the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whoever He wishes.

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

²³that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent Him.

²⁴“Most assuredly, I tell you, the person who hears my words and believes in Him who sent me has everlasting life, and won’t come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

²⁵Most assuredly, I tell you, the time is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of God’s Son, and those who hear will live.

²⁶For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself,

²⁷and has given Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man.

²⁸Don’t marvel at this, for the time is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice

²⁹and come out — those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.

³⁰I can do nothing by myself. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

³¹“If I testify about myself, my testimony isn’t valid.