the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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John 5:21
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The Father raises the dead and gives them life. In the same way, the Son gives life to those he wants to.
For lykwyse as the father rayseth vp ye deed and quickeneth them even so the sonne quyckeneth whom he will.
For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
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"For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes.
Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to those he wants to.
For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he will.
For as the Father raiseth the dead, and reviveth [them]; even so the Son reviveth whom he will.
For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.
For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
For as the Father raiseth and quickeneth the dead, so the Son also quickeneth whom he will.
For just as the Father awakens the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to whom He wills.
For as the fadir reisith deed men, and quykeneth, so the sone quykeneth whom he wole.
For as the Father raiseth the dead and quickeneth them, even so the Son also quickeneth whom he will.
For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.
Just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so the Son gives life to anyone he wants to.
"Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life [and allows them to live on], even so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes.
For as the Father raiseth the dead and giveth them life, even so the Son also giveth life to whom he will.
In the same way, as the Father gives life to the dead, even so the Son gives life to those to whom he is pleased to give it.
Just as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, so too the Son makes alive anyone he wants.
For even as the Father raises the dead and quickens [them], thus the Son also quickens whom he will:
For as the Father raiseth the dead, and quickeneth, so also the Son quickeneth those whom he willeth.
For as the Father raiseth the dead, and vivifieth them; so also the Son vivifieth whom he pleaseth.
For as the Father raiseth vp the dead, and quickeneth them: euen so the Sonne quickeneth whom he will.
For just as the Father gives life to those he raises from the dead, so the Son gives life to anyone he wants.
The Father raises up the dead and makes them live. The Son also gives life to anyone He chooses.
Indeed, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.
For likewise as the Father rayseth vp the dead, and quickeneth them, so the Sonne quickeneth whom he will.
For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to those whom he will.
For, just as the Father waketh up the dead, and quickeneth them, in like manner, the Son also, whom he pleaseth, doth quicken.
For as the Father raiseth up the dead and giveth life: so the Son also giveth life to whom he will.
For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.
For lykewyse as the father rayseth vp the dead, and quickeneth them: euen so, the sonne quickeneth whom he wyll.
Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, in the same way the Son gives life to those he wants to.
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For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, thus also the Son makes alive whomever he wishes.
`For, as the Father doth raise the dead, and doth make alive, so also the Son doth make alive whom he willeth;
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for as the father raiseth up the dead, and restores them to life: even so the son gives life to whom he will.
Even on the Sabbath Soon another Feast came around and Jesus was back in Jerusalem. Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there was a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda, with five alcoves. Hundreds of sick people—blind, crippled, paralyzed—were in these alcoves. One man had been an invalid there for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him stretched out by the pool and knew how long he had been there, he said, "Do you want to get well?" The sick man said, "Sir, when the water is stirred, I don't have anybody to put me in the pool. By the time I get there, somebody else is already in." Jesus said, "Get up, take your bedroll, start walking." The man was healed on the spot. He picked up his bedroll and walked off. That day happened to be the Sabbath. The Jews stopped the healed man and said, "It's the Sabbath. You can't carry your bedroll around. It's against the rules." But he told them, "The man who made me well told me to. He said, ‘Take your bedroll and start walking.'" They asked, "Who gave you the order to take it up and start walking?" But the healed man didn't know, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd. A little later Jesus found him in the Temple and said, "You look wonderful! You're well! Don't return to a sinning life or something worse might happen." The man went back and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. That is why the Jews were out to get Jesus—because he did this kind of thing on the Sabbath. But Jesus defended himself. "My Father is working straight through, even on the Sabbath. So am I." That really set them off. The Jews were now not only out to expose him; they were out to kill him. Not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was calling God his own Father, putting himself on a level with God. So Jesus explained himself at length. "I'm telling you this straight. The Son can't independently do a thing, only what he sees the Father doing. What the Father does, the Son does. The Father loves the Son and includes him in everything he is doing. "But you haven't seen the half of it yet, for in the same way that the Father raises the dead and creates life, so does the Son. The Son gives life to anyone he chooses. Neither he nor the Father shuts anyone out. The Father handed all authority to judge over to the Son so that the Son will be honored equally with the Father. Anyone who dishonors the Son, dishonors the Father, for it was the Father's decision to put the Son in the place of honor. "It's urgent that you listen carefully to this: Anyone here who believes what I am saying right now and aligns himself with the Father, who has in fact put me in charge, has at this very moment the real, lasting life and is no longer condemned to be an outsider. This person has taken a giant step from the world of the dead to the world of the living. "It's urgent that you get this right: The time has arrived—I mean right now!—when dead men and women will hear the voice of the Son of God and, hearing, will come alive. Just as the Father has life in himself, he has conferred on the Son life in himself. And he has given him the authority, simply because he is the Son of Man, to decide and carry out matters of Judgment. "Don't act so surprised at all this. The time is coming when everyone dead and buried will hear his voice. Those who have lived the right way will walk out into a resurrection Life; those who have lived the wrong way, into a resurrection Judgment. "I can't do a solitary thing on my own: I listen, then I decide. You can trust my decision because I'm not out to get my own way but only to carry out orders. If I were simply speaking on my own account, it would be an empty, self-serving witness. But an independent witness confirms me, the most reliable Witness of all. Furthermore, you all saw and heard John, and he gave expert and reliable testimony about me, didn't he? "But my purpose is not to get your vote, and not to appeal to mere human testimony. I'm speaking to you this way so that you will be saved. John was a torch, blazing and bright, and you were glad enough to dance for an hour or so in his bright light. But the witness that really confirms me far exceeds John's witness. It's the work the Father gave me to complete. These very tasks, as I go about completing them, confirm that the Father, in fact, sent me. The Father who sent me, confirmed me. And you missed it. You never heard his voice, you never saw his appearance. There is nothing left in your memory of his Message because you do not take his Messenger seriously. "You have your heads in your Bibles constantly because you think you'll find eternal life there. But you miss the forest for the trees. These Scriptures are all about me! And here I am, standing right before you, and you aren't willing to receive from me the life you say you want. "I'm not interested in crowd approval. And do you know why? Because I know you and your crowds. I know that love, especially God's love, is not on your working agenda. I came with the authority of my Father, and you either dismiss me or avoid me. If another came, acting self-important, you would welcome him with open arms. How do you expect to get anywhere with God when you spend all your time jockeying for position with each other, ranking your rivals and ignoring God? "But don't think I'm going to accuse you before my Father. Moses, in whom you put so much stock, is your accuser. If you believed, really believed, what Moses said, you would believe me. He wrote of me. If you won't take seriously what he wrote, how can I expect you to take seriously what I speak?"
For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.
For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will.
The Father can bring the dead back to life, and in the same way, the Son can give life to anyone he chooses.
"For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes.
For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
as: Deuteronomy 32:39, 1 Kings 17:21, 2 Kings 4:32-35, 2 Kings 5:7, Acts 26:8, Romans 4:17-19
even: John 11:25, John 11:43, John 11:44, John 17:2, Luke 7:14, Luke 7:15, Luke 8:54, Luke 8:55
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 2:10 - judge Psalms 68:20 - unto Psalms 80:17 - General Psalms 119:40 - quicken Ezekiel 37:3 - O Lord God Matthew 8:3 - I will Matthew 9:6 - that the Matthew 11:27 - are Luke 1:32 - give Luke 15:24 - this John 1:4 - him John 3:31 - is above John 5:19 - and John 5:20 - greater John 5:25 - when John 14:6 - the life 1 Corinthians 12:11 - as 1 Corinthians 15:22 - in Adam 1 Corinthians 15:45 - a quickening 2 Corinthians 3:6 - giveth life Ephesians 2:1 - dead Ephesians 2:5 - quickened Philippians 3:10 - and the power Colossians 2:13 - he Colossians 3:3 - your 1 Timothy 6:13 - who quickeneth 2 Peter 1:17 - God 1 John 5:11 - this
Cross-References
the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan;
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them,.... Which may be understood either spiritually of raising dead sinners from the death of sin, to a life of grace and holiness; and the rather, because it is expressed in the present tense "raiseth", and not "hath raised"; or naturally of raising those that are dead in a corporeal sense, and quickening them, as the widow of Sarepta's son by Elijah, and the Shunamite's son by Elisha:
even so the Son quickeneth whom he will; both in a spiritual sense, being the resurrection and the life, or the author of the resurrection from a moral death to a spiritual life, whose voice, in the Gospel, the dead in sin hear, and live; and in a natural sense, as in the above instances of Jairus's daughter, the widow of Naim's son, and Lazarus; and in the general resurrection, when at his voice, and word of power, all that are in their graves shall come forth, some to everlasting life, and some to everlasting damnation; and all this as he wills: he quickens, in a spiritual sense, whom he pleases, even as many as the Father has given him; and he will raise up to everlasting life, at the last day, whom he pleases, even as many as were made his care and charge, whom he has redeemed by his blood; and called by his grace. Now as the quickening of the dead is an act of almighty power, and this being exercised by the Son in a sovereign way, as is by his Father, it shows his proper deity, and full equality with the Father. The resurrection of the dead is here expressed by "quickening", as it frequently is by the Jews, who often speak of תהיית המתים, "the quickening the dead", for the resurrection; so the Targumist on Zechariah 3:8, "in the quickening of the dead", אחינך, "I will quicken thee"; see the Jerusalem Targum on
Genesis 29:26.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
As the Father raiseth up the dead - God has power to raise the dead. By his power it had been done in at least two instances - by the prophet Elijah, in the case of the son of the widow of Sarepta 1 Kings 17:22, and by the prophet Elisha, in the case of the Shunamite’s son, 2 Kings 4:32-35. The Jews did not doubt that God had power to raise the dead. Jesus here expressly affirms it, and says he has the same power.
Quickeneth them - Gives them “life.” This is the sense of the word “quickeneth” throughout the Bible.
Even so - In the same manner. By the same authority and power. The power of raising the dead must be one of the highest attributes of the divinity. As Jesus affirms that he has the power to do this “in the same manner” as the Father, so it follows that he must be equal with God.
The Son quickeneth - Gives life to. This may either refer to his raising the dead from their graves, or to his giving spiritual life to those who are dead in trespasses and sins. The former he did in the case of Lazarus and the widow’s son at Nain, John 11:43-44; Luke 7:14-15. The latter he did in the case of all those who were converted by his power, and still does it in any instance of conversion.
Whom he will - It was in the power of Jesus to raise up any of the dead as well as Lazarus. It depended on his will whether Lazarus and the widow’s son should come to life. So it depends on his will whether sinners shall live. He has power to renew them, and the renewing of the heart is as much the result of his “will” as the raising of the dead.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse John 5:21. As the Father raised up the dead — This he did in the case of the widow's son at Sarepta, 1 Kings 17:22, by the ministry of the Prophet Elijah. And again, in the case of the Shunamite's son, 2 Kings 4:32-35, by the ministry of the Prophet Elisha.
The Son quickeneth whom he will. — He raiseth from death to life whomsoever he pleases. So he did, for he raised the ruler's daughter, Mark 5:35-42; the widow's son at Nain, Luke 7:11-15; and Lazarus, at Bethany, John 11:14-44.
Whom he will. Here our Lord points out his sovereign power and independence; he gives life according to his own will - not being obliged to supplicate for the power by which it was done, as the prophets did; his own will being absolute and sufficient in every case.
