John 5:21

Good News Translation

Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, in the same way the Son gives life to those he wants to.

Cross References

1 Kings 17:21

Then Elijah stretched himself out on the boy three times and prayed, “O Lord my God, restore this child to life!”

2 Kings 5:7

When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes in dismay and exclaimed, “How can the king of Syria expect me to cure this man? Does he think that I am God, with the power of life and death? It's plain that he is trying to start a quarrel with me!”

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me will live, even though they die;

John 17:2

For you gave him authority over all people, so that he might give eternal life to all those you gave him.

John 6:63

What gives life is God's Spirit; human power is of no use at all. The words I have spoken to you bring God's life-giving Spirit.

Acts 26:8

Why do you who are here find it impossible to believe that God raises the dead?

Romans 8:11

If the Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from death, lives in you, then he who raised Christ from death will also give life to your mortal bodies by the presence of his Spirit in you.

1 Corinthians 15:45

For the scripture says, “The first man, Adam, was created a living being”; but the last Adam is the life-giving Spirit.

Deuteronomy 32:39

“‘I, and I alone, am God; no other god is real. I kill and I give life, I wound and I heal, and no one can oppose what I do.