John 5:23-44

²³that all may honor the Son, as they honor the Father. He that honoreth not the Son, honoreth not the Father, who sent him.

²⁴Truly, truly do I say to you, He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and cometh not into condemnation, but hath passed out of death into life.

²⁵Truly, truly do I say to you, The hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear will live.

²⁶For as the Father hath life in himself, so did he give to the Son also to have life in himself.

²⁷And he gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.

²⁸Marvel not at this; for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,

²⁹and will come forth, they that have done good, to a resurrection of life; they that have done evil, to a resurrection of condemnation.

³⁰I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will, but the will of him that sent me.

³¹If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.

³²There is another who beareth witness of me; and ye know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.

³³Ye have sent to John, and he hath borne witness to the truth.

³⁴But the testimony which I receive is not from man; but these things I say, that ye may be saved.

³⁵He was the burning and shining lamp: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.

³⁶But the testimony which I have, is greater than that of John; for the works which the Father hath given me to perform, the works themselves which I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.

³⁷And the Father who sent me, he hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.

³⁸And ye have not his word abiding in you; for whom he sent, him ye believe not.

³⁹Ye search the Scriptures, because ye yourselves think that in them ye have everlasting life; and it is they which testify of me;

⁴⁰and ye are not willing to come to me, that ye may have life.

⁴¹I receive not honor from men;

⁴²but I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.

⁴³I have come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not; if another come in his own name, him ye will receive.

⁴⁴How can ye believe while ye receive honor from one another, and seek not the honor that is from him who alone is God?