A Study of John 5:24-27
"Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. "Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, 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 execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man."
John 5:24-27 ESV
Definitions of the original language in the context of this passage:
-Truly: "Ἀμὴν", "amēn"; particle indeclinable - verily, amen, at the beginning of a discourse - surely, truly, of a truth.
-Word: "λόγον", "logon"; noun, accusative, singular, masculine - word, message, instruction, teaching.
-Believes: "πιστεύων", "pisteuōn"; verb, present, active, participle, singular, nominative, masculine - believe, equivalent to: to believe and embrace what God has made known either through Christ or concerning Christ.
-Eternal: "αἰώνιον", "aiōnion"; adjective, accusative, singular, feminine - perpetual; eternal; forever; everlasting.
-Life: "ζωὴν", "zōēn"; noun, accusative, singular, feminine - life real and genuine, vita quae sola vita nominanda (Cicero, de sen. 21, 77), a life active and vigorous, devoted to God, blessed, the portion even in this world of those who put their trust in Christ, but after the resurrection to be consummated by new accessions (among them a more perfect body), and to last forever; to be obtained in fellowship with Christ.
-Death (v.24): "θανάτου", "thanatou"; noun, genitive, singular, masculine - death; metaphorically, the loss of that life which alone is worthy of the name, i. e. "the misery of soul arising from sin, which begins on earth but lasts and increases after the death of the body".
-Dead (v.25): "νεκροὶ", "nekroi"; adjective, nominative, plural, masculine - corpse, dead; tropically: spiritually dead, i. e. "destitute of a life that recognizes and is devoted to God, because given up to trespasses and sins; inactive as respects doing right".
-Will Hear: "ἀκούσουσιν", "akousousin"; verb, future, active, indicative, third person, plural - to perceive the distinct words of a voice.
-Voice: "φωνῆς", "phōnēs"; noun, genitive, singular, feminine - a voice, i. e. the sound of uttered words; In John 5:25, 28: the sound of the words of Christ as he shall recall the dead to life (the resurrection-cry).
-of The Son of God: "τοῦ Υἱοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ", "tou Huiou tou Theou"; noun, genitive, singular, masculine - Jesus Christ.
-Will Live: "ζήσουσιν", "zēsousin"; verb, future, active, indicative, third person, plural - emphatically, and in the Messianic sense, to enjoy real life, i. e. to have true life and worthy of the name — active, blessed, endless in the kingdom of God.
-Authority: "ἐξουσίαν", "exousian"; noun, accusative, singular, feminine - the power of authority (influence) and of right; of the divine authority granted to Jesus as Messiah, with the infinitive of the thing to be done.
-To Execute: "ποιεῖν", "poiein"; verb, present, active, infinitive - joined to nouns involving the idea of action (or of something which is accomplished by action), so as to form a periphrasis for the verb cognate to the substantive, and thus to express the idea of the verb more forcibly. In John 5:27: "to execute judgment".
-Judgment: "κρίσιν", "krisin"; noun, accusative, singular, feminine - judgment; i. e. opinion or decision given concerning anything, especially concerning justice and injustice, right and wrong; That judgment which Christ occasioned, in that wicked men rejected the salvation he offered, and so of their own accord brought upon themselves misery and punishment.
YOU ARE READING
A Study of John's Gospel
Non-FictionI invite you to join me in this verse by verse study of the gospel of John. While the other gospels are centered on the ministry of Jesus in Galilee, John centers his account on Jesus' ministry in Jerusalem. While Matthew's gospel explains Jesus was...
