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JOHN 5:23 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
John 5:22John 5:24
“That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.”
'For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. — the Father's autozoeia (life in himself, self-subsistent existence) is the source of the Son's autozoeia. The sharing of this life-giving capacity establishes Jesus' divinity: only God possesses life in itself; creatures receive life from without.

Church Fathers on John 5:23

Having said that the Father would show the Son greater works than these, He proceeds to describe these greater works: For as the Father raises up the dead, and quickens them, even so the Son quickens whom He will. These are plainly greater works, for it is more of a miracle that a dead man should rise again, than that a sick mall should recover. We must not understand from the words, that some are raised by the Father, others by the Son; but that the Son raises to life the…

Augustine · 4th century

For to will is the free power of a nature, which by the act of choice, rests in the blessedness of perfect excellence.

Hilary of Poitiers · 4th century

As He gave Him life, i.e. begot Him living; so He gave Him judgment, i.e. begot Him a judge. Gave, it is said, that you may not think Him unbegotten, and imagine two Fathers: All judgment, because He has the awarding; both of punishment and reward.

Chrysostom · 4th century
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