John 5:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 3:35 : 35 The Father loves the Son and has placed all things under his authority.
  • Matt 3:17 : 17 And a voice from heaven said,“This is my one dear Son; in him I take great delight.”
  • John 14:12 : 12 I tell you the solemn truth, the person who believes in me will perform the miraculous deeds that I am doing, and will perform greater deeds than these, because I am going to the Father.
  • John 17:26 : 26 I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.”
  • 2 Pet 1:17 : 17 For he received honor and glory from God the Father, when that voice was conveyed to him by the Majestic Glory:“This is my dear Son, in whom I am delighted.”
  • John 15:15 : 15 I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.
  • Prov 8:22-31 : 22 The LORD created me as the beginning of his works, before his deeds of long ago. 23 From eternity I have been fashioned, from the beginning, from before the world existed. 24 When there were no deep oceans I was born, when there were no springs overflowing with water; 25 before the mountains were set in place– before the hills– I was born, 26 before he made the earth and its fields, or the top soil of the world. 27 When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep, 28 when he established the clouds above, when he secured the fountains of the deep, 29 when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, 30 then I was beside him as a master craftsman, and I was his delight day by day, rejoicing before him at all times, 31 rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and delighting in its people.
  • Matt 11:27 : 27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.
  • Matt 17:5 : 5 While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said,“This is my one dear Son, in whom I take great delight. Listen to him!”
  • Luke 10:22 : 22 All things have been given to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.”
  • John 1:18 : 18 No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.
  • John 5:21 : 21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.
  • John 5:25 : 25 I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming– and is now here– when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
  • John 5:29 : 29 and will come out– the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation.
  • John 10:32 : 32 Jesus said to them,“I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?”
  • John 12:45-47 : 45 and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me. 46 I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in darkness. 47 If anyone hears my words and does not obey them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 5:17-19
    3 verses
    84%

    17 So he told them,“My Father is working until now, and I too am working.”

    18 For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.

    19 So Jesus answered them,“I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

  • John 5:21-23
    3 verses
    80%

    21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.

    22 Furthermore, the Father does not judge anyone, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,

    23 so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

  • John 3:35-36
    2 verses
    79%

    35 The Father loves the Son and has placed all things under his authority.

    36 The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God’s wrath remains on him.

  • John 14:9-13
    5 verses
    77%

    9 Jesus replied,“Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say,‘Show us the Father’?

    10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.

    11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves.

    12 I tell you the solemn truth, the person who believes in me will perform the miraculous deeds that I am doing, and will perform greater deeds than these, because I am going to the Father.

    13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

  • John 5:36-37
    2 verses
    77%

    36 “But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete– the deeds I am now doing– testify about me that the Father has sent me.

    37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,

  • 76%

    26 Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will.

    27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.

  • 22 All things have been given to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.”

  • 73%

    37 If I do not perform the deeds of my Father, do not believe me.

    38 But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”

  • 73%

    15 Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

    16 In a little while you will see me no longer; again after a little while, you will see me.”

  • John 5:26-27
    2 verses
    73%

    26 For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

    27 and he has granted the Son authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.

  • 28 You heard me say to you,‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

  • 27 For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

  • 72%

    20 You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

    21 The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.”

  • 38 I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!”

  • John 8:28-29
    2 verses
    72%

    28 Then Jesus said,“When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.

    29 And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”

  • 25 “I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

  • 25 Jesus replied,“I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father’s name testify about me.

  • 46 (Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God– he has seen the Father.)

  • 24 If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my Father.

  • 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand.

  • 1 Jesus Prays for the Father to Glorify Him When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said,“Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you–

  • 32 Jesus said to them,“I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?”

  • John 6:39-40
    2 verses
    70%

    39 Now this is the will of the one who sent me– that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day.

    40 For this is the will of my Father– for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

  • 30 I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

  • 31 but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.

  • 17 This is why the Father loves me– because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.

  • 24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

  • 30 So they said to him,“Then what miraculous sign will you perform, so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?

  • 4 For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.”

  • 5 And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had with you before the world was created.

  • 21 Jesus replied,“I performed one miracle and you are all amazed.

  • 32 If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him right away.

  • 19 Then they began asking him,“Who is your father?” Jesus answered,“You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too.”