Joh 5:20, 22, 26 | Family | STEP | Showeth him all things ; makes him partaker of all his counsels, as well as acts with him in all his works. Greater works than these ; the works referred to in the following verses.

‏ John 5:20

Showeth him all things; makes him partaker of all his counsels, as well as acts with him in all his works.

Greater works than these; the works referred to in the following verses.

‏ John 5:22

The Father judgeth no man; in the scheme of redemption, the Son was to be the final judge of men, the author of their resurrection from the dead, and of their eternal life in heaven. This was, "that all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father." He that thus honoreth not the Son, honoreth not the Father. The Pharisees, therefore, while they were pleading ostensibly for the honor of God, were in reality treating him as they treated Jesus Christ; and so it is with all men now.

‏ John 5:26

Given to the Son to have life in himself; here the Saviour brings to view both his oneness with the Father in nature, and his subordination to him in office. To have life in himself, with the power of giving life at will, is to be proper God. But the office of quickening whom he will he has received, as Mediator, from the Father, and exercises it in accordance with the Father's appointment.