John 5:20-46

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.

³²There is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that his testimony about me is valid.

³³You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

³⁴Not that I accept human testimony, but I tell you this so that you may be saved.

³⁵John was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.

³⁶I have a greater testimony than John’s. The works that the Father has given me to finish — the very works that I do — testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

³⁷The Father Himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form.

³⁸You don’t have His words dwelling in you, because you don’t believe the One who He sent.

³⁹You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life, and these testify about me.

⁴⁰Yet you refuse to come to me to have life.

⁴¹“I don’t accept glory from men,

⁴²but I know you. I know that you don’t have God’s sincere love in you.

⁴³I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t accept me, but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

⁴⁴How can you believe when you accept glory from one another, and don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

⁴⁵“Don’t think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, who you have set your hope on.

⁴⁶If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.