Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                 Chapter Five

                                                                                                                                       Verses 20-29

Jesus softened His tone toward these unbelievers, and He began to preach to them to give them reasons why He was God. Jesus knew that they would not come to faith in Him, but He also knew that His Apostle John would later write down His words for those in the future who would come to faith in Him.

Because Jesus preached to unbelievers, He directed His sermon to God's relationship with the entire human race and not just to believers. Jesus told them that His Father loved Him and that He could do anything His Father could do and that they would see Him do even greater miracles than His healing of the impotent man. He said they would all "marvel" at His miracles, and yet, they would not believe.

Jesus preached about the Power of His Father to do miracles, and His own Power to do miracles. Since He had already claimed to be God, then His miracles and His Father's miracles had to be the same. Jesus preached that His Father had the Power to raise the dead back to life and that He had that same Power. When Jesus said this, He had to have meant every human who ever lived because every human possesses both spiritual life given to them by God, and spiritual death within their inner beings that has been injected into them by the Devil. All humans also physically die. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Both Jesus and the Apostle Paul often spoke about dead believers saved by grace as being merely asleep, not physically dead. John 11:11; I Thessalonians 4:13-15. Jesus even said that believers saved by grace would never die, by which He only could have meant that they would fall asleep. John 11:26. In addition, the Apostle Paul prophesied that a particular time and day will come when Christ will judge both the living and the dead. This prophecy can only mean that Christ will raise all living humans who failed to obtain salvation by grace because He will cause them all to repent and believe in Him of their own free will. II Timothy 4:1; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5. In this same verse, Jesus preached that he had the Power to abolish the inner death and restore to life anyone who believed in Him while still alive in the flesh. John 5:21. God must consign every living human who fails to obtain salvation by grace to one of the regions of death when they physically die. Hebrews 9:27. Christ may rebuke believers saved by grace for their unrepentant sins, but He will always allow their souls and spirits to go straight to Heaven. II Corinthians 5:5-10. But because God can never lose anything He has ever created and because He has abolished death itself and because every living human has to be alive to Him forever, He will cause every living human confined to one of the regions of death to repent and believe in the Lamb of their own free will, and He will raise them all back to life for Him to recreate in soul, spirit, and body to live forever on His recreated earth. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Timothy 6:13; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10; Luke 20:38; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.