John 5:28-30

The Authority of the Son

28 Do not marvel at this, for v an hour is coming when b all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, c those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

Witnesses to Jesus

30 d "I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and e my judgment is just, because f I seek not my own will g but the will of him who sent me.

  1. Cross References
    John 5:25
    Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
  2. Cross References
    John 11:24
    Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.
    1 Corinthians 15:52
    In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
    John 11:44 - 45
    The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go.
  3. Cross References
    Daniel 12:2
    And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
  4. Cross References
    John 5:19
    So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.
    John 8:28
    So Jesus said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.
    John 14:10
    Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
  5. Cross References
    John 8:16
    Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.
  6. Cross References
    John 4:34
    Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
    John 6:38
    For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.
    John 7:18
    The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.
    Romans 15:3
    For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.
  7. Cross References
    Matthew 26:39
    And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.
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