John 5:27-42

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 judgement 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 honour from people,

⁴²but I know this of you, that you have not the love of God in your hearts.