The Bible Study Podcast, episode 326.

Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of John as we finish chapter 5.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen.

We get away from healings that we were

talking about last time, and we start talking about authority, John 5, starting in verse 16,

the authority of the son. So because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish

leaders began to persecute him. In his defense, Jesus said to them, my father is always at work to this very day, and I too am working. For this reason, they

tried all the more to kill him. Not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even

calling God his own father, making himself equal with God. Jesus gave them an answer.

Very truly, I tell you, the son can do nothing by himself.

He can do only what he sees his father doing, because whatever the father does, the son also does,

for the father loves the son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater

works than these, so that you will be amazed. For just as the father raises the

dead and gives them life, even so the son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it. Moreover,

the father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the son, that all may honor

the son, just as they honor the father. Whoever does not honor the son,

does not honor the father who sent him. Very truly, I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes

him who sent me has eternal life and he will not be judged, but has crossed over from death to life.

Very truly, I tell you, a time is coming, and it has now come when the dead

will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. For as the Father has

life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself, and he has given him

authority to judge because he is the Son of Man. Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming

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