John 5:24-41

²⁴Listen to this carefully: Those who hear my message and believe that God is the one who sent me have eternal life. God will not ◄condemn them/say that he will punish them►. They are no longer separated from God. Instead, they have eternal life.

²⁵Listen to this carefully: There will be a time when those who are ◄spiritually dead/separated from God► will hear the voice of me, ◄the Son of God/the man who is also God►. In fact, it is that time already. Those who hear and pay attention to my message will have eternal life.

²⁶My Father has power to make things live. Similarly, he has given me the power to enable people to live eternally.

²⁷Because I am the one who came from heaven, he has given me the authority to judge people concerning their sins.

²⁸Do not be surprised about that, because there will be a time when all people who have died will hear my voice,

²⁹and they will become alive again. Those who have lived good lives will rise from their graves and live forever. But those who have lived evil lives will rise, and I will ◄condemn them/declare that I will punish them for their sins►.

³⁰I do not do anything like that by my own authority. I judge people only according to what I hear my Father tell me. I will judge people fairly, because I do not want to please only myself. Instead, I want to please my Father, who sent me.

³¹If I were the only one to tell people about myself, people could rightly say that what I say is not true.

³²But there is someone else who tells people about me. And I know that what he tells people about me is true.

³³As for you, when you sent messengers to John the Baptizer to ask about me, he told the truth about me.

³⁴I do not need that people tell others about me. But instead, I am reminding you about what John told people about me, in order that you will believe it and be saved { God will save you}.

³⁵John's message about me (OR, John) MET was like a lamp that shines brightly. For a short while you were willing to be made happy by that message {to let that message make you happy}.

³⁶But there is something else that tells you about me. It should prove who I am more than what John said about me. The miracles PRS that my Father told me to do, the miracles that I am performing, show (OR, prove) to people that my Father sent me.

³⁷Furthermore, my Father, who sent me, tells people about me. You have never heard his voice or seen him.

³⁸Furthermore, you have not believed in me, the one he sent. So you have not believed his message in your inner beings.

³⁹You carefully study (OR, Study) the Scriptures, because you think that by studying them you will find the way to have eternal life. And those Scriptures tell people about me!

⁴⁰But you refuse ◄to come to me/to believe my message► in order that you may have eternal life.

⁴¹It does not matter to me whether people praise me.