16. Jesus was doing this on the Sabbath day. So the Jews began to do bad things to him.
17. But Jesus said to them, “My Father never stops working. And so I work, too.”
18. This made the Jews try harder to kill him. They said, “First Jesus was breaking the law about the Sabbath day. Then he said that God is his own Father! He is making himself equal with God!”
19. But Jesus said, “I tell you the truth. The Son can do nothing alone. The Son does only what he sees his Father doing. The Son does whatever the Father does.
20. The Father loves the Son, and the Father shows the Son all the things he himself does. But the Father will show the Son greater things than this to do. Then you will all be amazed.
21. The Father raises the dead and gives them life. In the same way, the Son gives life to those he wants to.
22. Also, the Father judges no one. But the Father has given the Son power to do all the judging.
23. God did this so that all people will respect the Son the same way they respect the Father. He who does not respect the Son does not respect the Father. The Father is the One who sent the Son.
24. “I tell you the truth. Whoever hears what I say and believes in the One who sent me has eternal life. He will not be judged guilty. He has already left death and has entered into life.
25. I tell you the truth. The time is coming and is already here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God. And those who hear will have life.
26. Life comes from the Father himself. So the Father has allowed the Son to give life.
27. And the Father has given the Son the approval to judge because he is the Son of Man.
28. Don’t be surprised at this. A time is coming when all who are dead and in their graves will hear his voice.
29. Then they will come out of their graves. Those who did good will rise and have life forever. But those who did evil will rise to be judged guilty.