John 5:23-45

²³So that all men may give honour to the Son even as they give honour to the Father. He who gives no honour to the Son gives no honour to the Father who sent him.

²⁴Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.

²⁵Truly I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have life.

²⁶For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son to have life in himself.

²⁷And he has given him authority to be judge because he is the Son of man.

²⁸Do not be surprised at this: for the time is coming when his voice will come to all who are in the place of the dead,

²⁹And they will come out; those who have done good, into the new life; and those who have done evil, to be judged.

³⁰Of myself I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I give a decision: and my decision is right because I have no desire to do what is pleasing to myself, but only what is pleasing to him who sent me.

³¹If I gave witness about myself, my witness would not be true.

³²There is another who gives witness about me and I am certain that the witness he gives about me is true.

³³You sent to John and he gave true witness.

³⁴But I have no need of a man's witness: I only say these things so that you may have salvation.

³⁵He was a burning and shining light, and for a time you were ready to be happy in his light.

³⁶But the witness which I have is greater than that of John: the work which the Father has given me to do, the very work which I am now doing, is a witness that the Father has sent me.

³⁷And the Father himself who sent me has given witness about me. Not one of you has ever given ear to his voice; his form you have not seen.

³⁸And you have not kept his word in your hearts, because you have not faith in him whom he has sent.

³⁹You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me.

⁴⁰And still you have no desire to come to me so that you may have life.

⁴¹I do not take honour from men;

⁴²But I have knowledge of you that you have no love for God in your hearts.

⁴³I have come in my Father's name, and your hearts are not open to me. If another comes with no other authority but himself, you will give him your approval.

⁴⁴How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?

⁴⁵Put out of your minds the thought that I will say things against you to the Father: the one who says things against you is Moses, on whom you put your hopes.