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John 5:17-47

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17But Jesus replied, “My Father works to this very hour, and I work also.”
18This made the authorities all the more eager to kill him, because not only was he doing away with the Sabbath, but he actually called God his own Father — putting himself on an equality with God.
19So Jesus made this further reply, “In truth I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself; he does only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does, the Son does also.
20For the Father loves his Son, and shows him everything that he is doing; and he will show him still greater things — so that you will be filled with wonder.
21For, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he pleases.
22The Father himself does not judge any one, but has entrusted the work of judging entirely to his Son,
23so that everyone may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. The person who does not honour the Son fails to honour the Father who sent him.
24In truth I tell you that the person who listens to my message and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and does not come under condemnation, but has already passed out of death into life.
25In truth I tell you that a time is coming, indeed it is already here, when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and when those who listen will live.
26For, just as the Father has inherent life within him, so also he has granted to the Son to have inherent life within him;
27and, because he is Son of Man, he has also given him authority to act as judge.
28Do not wonder at this; for the time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice,
29and will come out — those who have done good rising to life, and those who have lived evil lives rising for condemnation.
30I can do nothing of myself; I judge as I am taught; and the judgment that I give is just, because my aim is not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
31“If I bear testimony to myself, my testimony is not trustworthy;
32it is another who bears testimony to me, and I know that the testimony which he bears to me is trustworthy.
33You have yourselves sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.
34But the testimony which I receive is not from people; I am saying this for your salvation.
35He was the Lamp that was burning and shining, and you were ready to rejoice, for a time, in his light.
36But the testimony which I have is of greater weight than John's; for the work that the Father has given me to carry out — the work that I am doing — is in itself proof that the Father has sent me as his messenger.
37The Father who has sent me has himself borne testimony to me. You have neither listened to his voice, not seen his form;
38and you have not taken his message home to your hearts, because you do not believe him whom he sent as his messenger.
39You search the scriptures, because you think that you find in them immortal life; and, though it is those scriptures that bear testimony to me,
40you refuse to come to me to have life.
41“I do not receive honor from people,
42but I know this of you, that you have not the love of God in your hearts.
43I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
44How can you believe in me, when you receive honor from one another and do not desire the honor which comes from the only God?
45Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; your accuser is Moses, on whom you have been resting your hopes.
46For, had you believed Moses, you would have believed me, for it was of me that Moses wrote;
47but, if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my teaching?”

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