John:5:16-30

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* and because of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus , because he had done it on the Sabbath . * But he answered them , "My Father has continued working until now , and I am working too ." * For this reason the Jews continued to seek the more eagerly to put him to death , because not only was he breaking the Sabbath , but he was actually speaking of God as his own Father , thus making himself of Gods equal . * So Jesus answered them in these words . "In solemn truth I tell that the Son cannot do anything of himself , except what he sees the Father doing ; for whatever he does , that the Son does also . * "For the Father loves the Son , and shows him every thing that he himself is doing . And greater deeds than these will he show him , that you may wonder . * "For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive , even so the Son makes whom he will alive . * "The Father indeed does not judge any one , but has given all judgment to the Son , * "in order that all may honor the Son even as they honor the Father . He who does not honor Son , does not honor the Father who sent him . * "I tell you solemnly that he who listens to my messages and believes Him who sent me , has eternal life . He will not come under condemnation , but has passed out of death into life . * "Solemnly I tell you that the hour is coming , and now is , when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God , and those who hear shall live . * "For as the Father has life in himself , so also has he granted to the Son to have life in himself . * "And he has given him authority to pronounce judgment , because he is Son of man . * "Do not wonder at this , because an hour is coming in which all who are in their graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth again ; * "those who have done good into a resurrection of life , and those who have practised evil to a resurrection of condemnation . * "I can of my own self do nothing . As I listen , I judge , and my own judgment is just , because I am not seeking my own will , but the will of Him who sent me .

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