Jesus Claims Equality with God

John 5:17-30

Jesus Claims Equality with God

And Jesus answered them, `My Father till now doth work, and I work;'

because of this, then, were the Jews seeking the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the sabbath, but he also called God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

The Authority of the Son

Jesus therefore responded and said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything of himself, if he may not see the Father doing anything; for whatever things He may do, these also the Son in like manner doth;

for the Father doth love the Son, and doth shew to him all things that He himself doth; and greater works than these He will shew him, that ye may wonder.

`For, as the Father doth raise the dead, and doth make alive, so also the Son doth make alive whom he willeth;

for neither doth the Father judge any one, but all the judgment He hath given to the Son,

that all may honour the Son according as they honour the Father; he who is not honouring the Son, doth not honour the Father who sent him.

`Verily, verily, I say to you--He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.

`Verily, verily, I say to you--There cometh an hour, and it now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those having heard shall live;

for, as the Father hath life in himself, so He gave also to the Son to have life in himself,

and authority He gave him also to do judgment, because he is Son of Man.

`Wonder not at this, because there doth come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice,

and they shall come forth; those who did the good things to a rising again of life, and those who practised the evil things to a rising again of judgment.

`I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

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John 12:49
because I spake not from myself, but the Father who sent me, He did give me a command, what I may say, and what I may speak,
from verse 19
John 3:36
he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.'
from verse 24
John 8:28
Jesus, therefore, said to them, `When ye may lift up the Son of Man then ye will know that I am he ; and of myself I do nothing, but according as my Father did teach me, these things I speak;
from verse 19
John 14:10
Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? the sayings that I speak to you, from myself I speak not, and the Father who is abiding in me, Himself doth the works;
from verse 17
1 John 5:11
and this is the testimony, that life age-during did God give to us, and this--the life--is in His Son;
from verse 24
1 John 5:13
These things I did write to you who are believing in the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that life ye have age-during, and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God.
from verse 24
John 3:18
he who is believing in him is not judged, but he who is not believing hath been judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
from verse 24
John 6:40
and this is the will of Him who sent me, that every one who is beholding the Son, and is believing in him, may have life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day.'
from verse 24
John 6:38
because I have come down out of the heaven, not that I may do my will, but the will of Him who sent me.
from verse 30
Romans 8:1
There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;
from verse 24
John 6:47
`Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is believing in me, hath life age-during;
from verse 24
John 5:19
Jesus therefore responded and said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything of himself, if he may not see the Father doing anything; for whatever things He may do, these also the Son in like manner doth;
from verse 30

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