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John 5:20

John 5:20 is verse 20 of John chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

The Father loves the Son and shows Him all He does. And to your amazement, He will show Him even greater works than these.

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King James Version

For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.

World English Bible

For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.

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John 5:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible

18 Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

19 So Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, unless He sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.

20 The Father loves the Son and shows Him all He does. And to your amazement, He will show Him even greater works than these.

21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.

22 Furthermore, the Father judges no one, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

John 3:35

The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in His hands.

John 17:26

And I have made Your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love You have for Me may be in them, and I in them.”

Matthew 3:17

And a voice from heaven said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!”

Matthew 17:5

While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”

2 Peter 1:17

For He received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice came to Him from the Majestic Glory, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

John 1:18

No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.

John 10:32

But Jesus responded, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone Me?”

John 15:15

No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.

Proverbs 8:22

The LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old.

Proverbs 8:23

From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, before the earth began.

Proverbs 8:24

When there were no watery depths, I was brought forth, when no springs were overflowing with water.

Proverbs 8:25

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth,

Proverbs 8:26

before He made the land or fields, or any of the dust of the earth.

Proverbs 8:27

I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,

Proverbs 8:28

when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,

Proverbs 8:29

when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.

Proverbs 8:30

Then I was a skilled craftsman at His side, and His delight day by day, rejoicing always in His presence.

Proverbs 8:31

I was rejoicing in His whole world, delighting together in the sons of men.

Matthew 11:27

All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.

Luke 10:22

All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.”

John 5:21

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.

John 5:25

Truly, truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

John 5:29

and come out—those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

John 12:45

And whoever sees Me sees the One who sent Me.

John 12:46

I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in Me should remain in darkness.

John 12:47

As for anyone who hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

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