²⁵ Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come^(A) when the dead will hear^(B) the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. ²⁶ For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life^(C) in himself. ²⁷ And he has given him authority to judge^(D) because he is the Son of Man.

²⁸ “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming^(E) when all who are in their graves will hear his voice ²⁹ and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.^{(F) 30} By myself I can do nothing;^(G) I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just,^(H) for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.^(I)

¹⁰ They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white^(A) stood beside them. ¹¹ “Men of Galilee,”^(B) they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back^(C) in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”

³⁹ “We are witnesses^(A) of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a cross,^{(B) 40} but God raised him from the dead^(C) on the third day and caused him to be seen. ⁴¹ He was not seen by all the people,^(D) but by witnesses whom God had already chosen—by us who ate^(E) and drank with him after he rose from the dead. ⁴² He commanded us to preach to the people^(F) and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead.^(G)

⁵ But they will have to give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.^(A)