Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                 Chapter Five

                                                                                                                                      Verses 30-32

Jesus continued His sermon by telling these unbelievers that if He were merely an ordinary human He could not do the miracles which they saw. Jesus preached past these unbelievers to the future readers of His Gospel who would possess strong spiritual natures with the ability to repent and become saved by His grace.

Jesus further taught that He would make only the judgments while He was on the earth that He heard from His Father. Jesus' judgments while He was on the earth had to be just, and He never told any living human that God would cast that person into an eternal lake of fire. Jesus did teach that God would cast their "worms" into the lake of fire, but He used that word in the same symbolic sense that Isaiah used it to mean the dead, spiritual nature of humans. Isaiah wrote that resurrected living humans would be able to see their own "worms" in the lake of fire. Mark 9:44,46,48; Isaiah 66:22-24. One of the judgments that Jesus made happened when He told an unbelieving Pharisee that he would be rewarded for his good works "at the resurrection of the just." Jesus could only have meant that He would resurrect that Pharisee's living image of God within him in the end of the world. Luke 14:12-15; John 5:28-29. Jesus also told a group of unbelieving Pharisees that "the Kingdom of God is within you" by which He could only have meant that they possessed the living image of God that He put into them when He created them. Luke 17:20-21. Jesus clearly taught that He would make no final judgments until the end of the world, and those final judgments are exactly described in Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5, and Revelation 20:11-15.

Jesus further preached that He could only do the Will of His Father, and every human could see God's Will being done through Jesus. Jesus taught that if He were an ordinary human, then whatever He said about Himself being God could not be true, but that which He said about Himself had to be true because His Father had provided the evidence that Jesus was God by the miracles that Jesus was able to do.