New Testament in a Year

²⁵ “Amen, amen, I say to you,
the hour is coming,
indeed it is already here,
when the dead will hear
the voice of the Son of God,
and all those who hear it will live.
²⁶ For just as the Father has life in himself,
so also he has granted the Son to have life in himself.
²⁷ And he has also granted him
the power to pass judgment,
because he is the Son of Man.
²⁸ “Do not be astonished at this,
for the hour is coming
when all those who are in their graves
will hear his voice
²⁹ and will come forth from their graves.
Those who have done good deeds
will rise to life,
while those who have done evil
will rise to judgment.
³⁰ “I can do nothing on my own.
As I hear, I judge,
and my judgment is just,
because I seek to do
not my own will
but the will of him who sent me.

^31 [a]“If I were to testify about myself,
my testimony would not be true.
³² However, there is another who testifies about me,
and I know that his testimony is true,
the testimony he bore concerning me.
³³ You sent messengers to John,
and he has testified to the truth.
³⁴ Not that I accept such human testimony,
but I say these things
so that you may be saved.
³⁵ “John was a burning and shining lamp,
and for a time you were willing
to exult in his light.
³⁶ But I have testimony that is greater than John’s.
The works that my Father
has given me to accomplish,
the very works that I am doing,
testify about me,
that the Father has sent me.
³⁷ “And the Father who sent me
has himself testified about me.
You have not heard his voice
or seen his form,
³⁸ and you do not have his word
abiding in you,
because you do not believe
him whom he has sent.
³⁹ “Search the Scriptures carefully
because you believe that through them
you will gain eternal life.
Even they testify on my behalf.
⁴⁰ Yet you refuse to come to me
to receive that life.

⁴¹ “I do not accept the praise of men.
⁴² Moreover, I know that you do not have
the love of God in your hearts.
⁴³ I have come in the name of my Father,
yet you do not accept me.
But if another should come in his own name,
you will accept him.
⁴⁴ How can you believe
when you accept praise from one another,
yet you do not seek
the praise that comes from
the only God?
⁴⁵ “Do not think that I will accuse you
before the Father.
You have placed your hope in Moses,
and he is the one who will accuse you.
⁴⁶ If you truly believed Moses,
you would have believed in me,
for it is about me that he wrote.
⁴⁷ But since you do not believe what he wrote,
how will you believe what I say?”