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John 5:21
John 5:21 is verse 21 of John chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.
King James Version
For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
World English Bible
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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John 5:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible
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,
23 so 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.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Deuteronomy 32:39See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
1 Kings 17:21Then he stretched himself out over the child three times and cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, please let this boy’s life return to him!”
2 Kings 4:32When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his bed.
2 Kings 4:33So he went in, closed the door behind the two of them, and prayed to the LORD.
2 Kings 4:34Then Elisha got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eye to eye, and hand to hand. As he stretched himself out over him, the boy’s body became warm.
2 Kings 4:35Elisha turned away and paced back and forth across the room. Then he got on the bed and stretched himself out over the boy again, and the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.
2 Kings 5:7When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life, that this man expects me to cure a leper? Surely you can see that he is seeking a quarrel with me!”
Acts 26:8Why would any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?
Romans 4:17As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.
Romans 4:18Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”
Romans 4:19Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb.
John 11:25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
John 11:43After Jesus had said this, He called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
John 11:44The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.
John 17:2For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.
Luke 7:14Then He went up and touched the coffin, and those carrying it stood still. “Young man,” He said, “I tell you, get up!”
Luke 7:15And the dead man sat up and began to speak! Then Jesus gave him back to his mother.
Luke 8:54But Jesus took her by the hand and called out, “Child, get up!”
Luke 8:55Her spirit returned, and at once she got up. And He directed that she be given something to eat.