John 5:19

God's Word

Jesus said to the Jews, “I can guarantee this truth: The Son cannot do anything on his own. He can do only what he sees the Father doing. Indeed, the Son does exactly what the Father does.

Cross References

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created heaven and earth.

Genesis 1:26

Then God said, “Let us make humans in our image, in our likeness. Let them rule the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the domestic animals all over the earth, and all the animals that crawl on the earth.”

Psalm 138:3

When I called, you answered me. You made me bold by strengthening my soul.

Psalm 27:14

Wait with hope for the Lord. Be strong, and let your heart be courageous. Yes, wait with hope for the Lord.

Psalm 50:6

The heavens announce his righteousness because God is the judge. Selah

Exodus 4:11

The Lord asked him, “Who gave humans their mouths? Who makes humans unable to talk or hear? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? It is I, the Lord!

Proverbs 2:6

The Lord gives wisdom. From his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Isaiah 44:24

The Lord reclaimed you. He formed you in the womb. This is what the Lord says: I, the Lord, made everything. I stretched out the heavens by myself. I spread out the earth all alone.

Isaiah 45:24

It will be said of me, “Certainly, righteousness and strength are found in the Lord alone.” All who are angry with him will come to him and be ashamed.

Jeremiah 17:10

I, the Lord, search minds and test hearts. I will reward each person for what he has done. I will reward him for the results of his actions.

Matthew 26:39

After walking a little farther, he quickly bowed with his face to the ground and prayed, “Father, if it’s possible, let this cup ⌞of suffering⌟ be taken away from me. But let your will be done rather than mine.”

Luke 21:15

I will give you words and wisdom that none of your enemies will be able to oppose or prove wrong.

John 10:18

No one takes my life from me. I give my life of my own free will. I have the authority to give my life, and I have the authority to take my life back again. This is what my Father ordered me to do.”

John 12:49

I have not spoken on my own. Instead, the Father who sent me told me what I should say and how I should say it.

John 12:50

I know that what he commands is eternal life. Whatever I say is what the Father told me to say.”

John 14:10

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? What I’m telling you doesn’t come from me. The Father, who lives in me, does what he wants.

John 2:19

Jesus replied, “Tear down this temple, and I’ll rebuild it in three days.”

John 3:3

Jesus replied to Nicodemus, “I can guarantee this truth: No one can see God’s kingdom without being born from above.”

John 5:21

In the same way that the Father brings back the dead and gives them life, the Son gives life to anyone he chooses.

John 6:38

I haven’t come from heaven to do what I want to do. I’ve come to do what the one who sent me wants me to do.

John 8:28

So Jesus told them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you’ll know that I am the one and that I can’t do anything on my own. Instead, I speak as the Father taught me.

John 9:4

We must do what the one who sent me wants us to do while it is day. The night when no one can do anything is coming.

Acts 2:24

But God brought him from death back to life and destroyed the pains of death, because death had no power to hold him.

Romans 6:4

When we were baptized into his death, we were placed into the tomb with him. As Christ was brought back from death to life by the glorious power of the Father, so we, too, should live a new kind of life.

Romans 8:11

Does the Spirit of the one who brought Jesus back to life live in you? Then the one who brought Christ back to life will also make your mortal bodies alive by his Spirit who lives in you.

1 Corinthians 15:12

If we have told you that Christ has been brought back to life, how can some of you say that coming back from the dead is impossible?

2 Corinthians 4:14

We know that the one who brought the Lord Jesus back to life will also bring us back to life through Jesus. He will present us to God together with you.

2 Corinthians 5:10

All of us must appear in front of Christ’s judgment seat. Then all people will receive what they deserve for the good or evil they have done while living in their bodies.

Ephesians 2:5

We were dead because of our failures, but he made us alive together with Christ. (It is God’s kindness  that saved you.)

Ephesians 3:16

I’m asking God to give you a gift from the wealth of his glory. I pray that he would give you inner strength and power through his Spirit.

Philippians 3:21

Through his power to bring everything under his authority, he will change our humble bodies and make them like his glorified body.

Philippians 4:13

I can do everything through Christ who strengthens me.

Colossians 1:11

We ask him to strengthen you by his glorious might with all the power you need to patiently endure everything with joy.

Colossians 1:16

He created all things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible. Whether they are kings or lords, rulers or powers— everything has been created through him and for him.

1 Thessalonians 4:14

We believe that Jesus died and came back to life. We also believe that, through Jesus, God will bring back those who have died. They will come back with Jesus.

1 Peter 3:18

This is true because Christ suffered for our sins once. He was an innocent person, but he suffered for guilty people so that he could bring you to God. His body was put to death, but he was brought to life through his spirit.

Revelation 2:23

I will kill her children. Then all the churches will know that I am the one who searches hearts and minds. I will reward each of you for what you have done.